Add license

[capsulecorplab]

closes #7

[TristanDamron]

Left you a few comments!

[TristanDamron]

@j-simmons-phd @Ahmad-Mukhtar as contributors to this project prior to us incorporating a license, Sean and I wanted to get your blessings to distribute the geoCML base image under the GPL v2. If you feel super strongly that we shouldn't be using the GPL for this project, let's have a discussion about that over on the GitHub Discussions board! Otherwise, we'd really appreciate if you could respond to this thread with a 'Sounds good to me' or drop an emoji reaction on this comment so we know you're cool with this license. Thank you for contributing your efforts to get us closer towards our first release!

[j-simmons-phd]

@TristanDamron My approach to licensing the KASM image technology has been to follow the originator’s lead on licensing. Given my code is a remix of their code to simplify development of multiple KASM images, I would suggest consulting with the KASM group themselves as well before relicensing to GPL.

Additionally, any GPL’ed code you introduce that could be important in the originating repository would not be able to be merged back in as I will not be changing my code base to GPL. So, my preference, in the interest of facilitating future collaboration and simplifying things with the KASM originators, would be to maintain the MIT license as we did when we built off of KASM code.

[Ahmad-Mukhtar]

Sounds good to me

[TristanDamron]

@j-simmons-phd I've done some more research into this... Because the MIT license permits sub-licensing, I don't think it's necessary to consult with the Kasm developers for changes you make to their license, (they clearly know this is possible under MIT, otherwise they wouldn't have chosen it for this project). You are correct though in that we cannot relicense the software. What we need to do, then, is amend the original MIT license from Kasm with the conditions I described here: 20a8865#r971050848

For the needs of this project, I am really against using a vanilla MIT license. Without a incorporating a copyleft and upstream clause, this license is antithetical to the reasons the project was started.

cc: @capsulecorplab

[capsulecorplab]

Apologies for taking so long on updating this PR! In the interest of incorporating the GPL v2 license, while also preserving the original verbiage/clauses of the MIT license, I've updated LICENSE.md to include both the contents of the MIT and GPL v2 license as of bf4151e

[TristanDamron]

@capsulecorplab We should put the GPL conditions under this line rather than having them at the end of the license.