BDbdz·Apr 22, 2019
According to their repo the API is under MIT license? So what's the problem?
https://github.com/smartcar/node-sdk
In Otonomo, with nearly $55M in funding, is cloning our productsmartcar
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smartcar / node-sdk
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Smartcar Node.js SDK
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2 sourcesI haven't seen this mentioned anywhere so I thought I'd post it to see what you all think... IANAL, IMHO, etc.
I searched for one of the unique tokens in the docs: https://www.google.com/search?q=0facda3319
That pulls up their SDK github repo: https://github.com/smartcar/node-sdk/blob/master/doc/readme....
Which is published with a standard MIT license: https://github.com/smartcar/node-sdk/blob/master/LICENSE.md
Which says (among other things): "Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subj
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ect to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software."
Which may have significantly complicated their copyright claim if Otonomo includes the MIT license and attribution to smartcar.. At the same time, I can't find Otonomo's docs anywhere.
Something to think about when setting up your GitHub license!