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It is important to define the license under which a software project is released in order to allow its use. Previously, although the licensing was indicated by informal comments in most of the sketches, a formal license was not provided. This project is not truly a library, but rather just 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. As is standard practice for the example sketches created by Arduino, this project's sketches contain the statement: > This example code is in 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 allow its use.
Previously, the sole indication of licensing was informal comments present in most of the sketches:
ArduinoCloudProviderExamples/examples/AWS IoT/AWS_IoT_GSM/AWS_IoT_GSM.ino
Line 18 in cf1a801
ArduinoCloudProviderExamples/examples/AWS IoT/AWS_IoT_NB/AWS_IoT_NB.ino
Line 18 in cf1a801
ArduinoCloudProviderExamples/examples/AWS IoT/AWS_IoT_WiFi/AWS_IoT_WiFi.ino
Line 20 in cf1a801
ArduinoCloudProviderExamples/examples/Azure IoT Hub/Azure_IoT_Hub_GSM/Azure_IoT_Hub_GSM.ino
Line 18 in cf1a801
ArduinoCloudProviderExamples/examples/Azure IoT Hub/Azure_IoT_Hub_NB/Azure_IoT_Hub_NB.ino
Line 23 in cf1a801
ArduinoCloudProviderExamples/examples/Azure IoT Hub/Azure_IoT_Hub_WiFi/Azure_IoT_Hub_WiFi.ino
Line 15 in cf1a801
ArduinoCloudProviderExamples/examples/Google Cloud Platform IoT Core/GCP_IoT_Core_GSM/GCP_IoT_Core_GSM.ino
Line 18 in cf1a801
ArduinoCloudProviderExamples/examples/Google Cloud Platform IoT Core/GCP_IoT_Core_NB/GCP_IoT_Core_NB.ino
Line 18 in cf1a801
ArduinoCloudProviderExamples/examples/Google Cloud Platform IoT Core/GCP_IoT_Core_WiFi/GCP_IoT_Core_WiFi.ino
Line 15 in cf1a801
(As is standard practice for the example sketches created by Arduino)
However, a formal license was not provided.
This project is not truly a library, but rather just 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.
The appropriate formal license in the case where the intent is to release the content into the public domain 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 which is used by the GitHub website).