docs: LICENSE

[EA-pbu]

added MIT License file

[EA-pbu]

Hi @zposten !
Awesome work on creating this useful package!
Would you mind open-sourcing it with an MIT license template so that the others can legally use it for their own purposes?
I created one LICENSE file with MIT template with current year and your name in it.
It's totally up to you wether you consider adding a license to your project or not.

Thanks again!

[0livare]

Hey @EA-pbu, thanks for the PR!

My intention is definitely for this package to be fully open source. The package.json's license field has a value of "MIT". Is there a reason that that alone does not suffice to specify the license?

[EA-pbu]

Hi @zposten !
Appreciate your swift response, thanks a lot.

Indeed you have mentioned MIT license in package.json . By no means I claim to have a deep knowledge of all legal peculiarities of open-source projects.
I'm only coming from suggestion that sometimes people would like to see actual license file that includes the details for legal use of your code. And mentioning "MIT" in package.json is not really informative in such case.
And other reason that I think it may be useful to include a LICENSE file is just because all popular npm packages are having
actual LICENSE files in their repositories. Big corporations are behind these packages and I think they have a reason including an actual LICENSE file to their repositories on top of mentioning it swiftly in packages.json

You can have a look:
https://github.com/expressjs/express
https://github.com/facebook/jest
https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript

[0livare]

@EA-pbu Good points all! Thanks for discussing it with me. I agree we should add the LICENSE file.

Could you possibly add my email to the copyright line please? Then I'll merge this in publish a new version

Copyright (c) 2021 Zach Posten <[email protected]>

[EA-pbu]

sure! included your email

[0livare]

Thank you!

[0livare]

@EA-pbu Just a heads up v0.0.14 is out with all these changes. Thanks so much for you contributions!