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Add copyright and license information

Steffen Müthing requested to merge feature/add-copyright-and-license-information into master

Before we can switch the new website live, we have to clarify the copyright and license situation, in particular considering all of the external software (jQuery, Bootstrap etc.) that we use. This merge request adds the required information. I don't want to bore you with the details, but it sets the following policy:

  • All of the content on the web page is licensed under CC-BY-SA-4.0. This means that people can copy that information around, but they have to acknowledge the original source (the Dune website) and have to use similar licenses.
  • In addition, all source code that appears on the website (code examples etc.) are licensed under the extremely liberal Unlicense https://unlicense.org. This basically lets people do whatever they want with that code, it only makes sure that there is a liablilty exclusion clause.
  • As the theme of our website is an extension of the Apache-licensed theme of the Hugo website, all of the theme files are also Apache 2.0.

The one thing that I think we should discuss is whether we want to use CC-BY-SA (requires downstream to use a similarly free license), or if we restrict ourselves to CC-BY (which only requires attribution).

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