CDCgov
Licensing is confusing
We've had one contributor remark that the Licensing is unclear since both ASL and public domain is mentioned in the readme.md. How can both apply to the same depot? The prime-data-hub uses the same wording as this site.
https://github.com/CDCgov/prime-data-hub/issues/270
Sorry, I missed this an originally commented on prime-data-hub. Not sure it applies to cdcgov.github.io, but not sure how to move issues over to template so will answer here so you see and figure out how to incorporate into the template repo.
FYI, I noticed this issue and am interested in what you develop for your project and needs. I set up the template with both because creative comments is meant to address copyright and apache is meant to address software license. That doesn't mean they conflict with each other, but they aren't incompatible by nature, and wanted to have something operational as most programs don't customize this (although I wish they would).
Apache includes a section for copyright, but since we make government products that are in the public domain we don't typically copyright anything we create. So the intent is to note that the material in the project is available under creative commons in terms of IP usage. And that the material is available under an apache license that includes lots more rights and restrictions than copyright. At one point we didn't include a license since just being under public domain means it can be used in pretty much every way that ASL grants, but it was harder on users who were trying to evaluate license compatibility for their projects. So Apache was added to make projects more compatible so by default material are available under both CC0 and ASL. Of course, programs can adjust this to meet particular needs.
Still confusing, but I hope this context helps, and always looking for ways to make this wording better so that we get better contributions and more usage.
