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It is important to define the license under which a software project is released in order to permit its use. Previously, this project did not contain any information about licensing. This project is not truly a library, but rather solely a collection of sketches packaged as a library in order to allow distribution via Library Manager, but without any library source code. So it is those sketches that are the significant content of the project, for which licensing must be defined. It is standard practice for Arduino to release sketches into the public domain. The appropriate formal license in this case is Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal. A standardized Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal license file is hereby added to the project. In addition to providing this important information to the project users, this will also allow automated license type detection (e.g., by the Licensee Gem used by the GitHub website).
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It is important to define the license under which a software project is released in order to permit its use.
Previously, this project did not contain any information about licensing.
This project is not truly a library, but rather solely a collection of sketches packaged as a library in order to allow distribution via Library Manager, but without any library source code. So it is those sketches that are the significant content of the project, for which licensing must be defined.
It is standard practice for Arduino to release sketches into the public domain. For example:
https://github.com/arduino/ArduinoCloudProviderExamples/blob/cf1a801c5a2aa864e0fb8f59dbc2fa362c9d6022/examples/AWS%20IoT/AWS_IoT_GSM/AWS_IoT_GSM.ino#L18
For this reason, I am proposing that this project be licensed as Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal, which is the appropriate formal license in the case where the intent is to release the content into the public domain.
This pull request adds a standardized Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal license file is hereby added to the project. In addition to providing this important information to the project users, this will also allow automated license type detection (e.g., by the Licensee Gem which is used by the GitHub website).
CC: @PierLuisVona