Choose a suitable license and justify our choice

[Stephanie-Ta]

Our discussion of which license(s) to use will be documented here.

[Stephanie-Ta]

@waiming @Shan-non @yixuangaoclara
Hi team! I suggest that we continue using the MIT license for our code and a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license for our package-level documentation.
I like the MIT license because it gives a lot of flexibility for reuse of our code. I also like the CC BY 4.0 license because it also allows others to reuse our documentation. Also, both licenses require giving credit to us.

Here's a description of the CC BY 4.0 license:

This license requires that reusers give credit to the creator. It allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, even for commercial purposes.

If you agree with me, we can change our license file to be like the following:

# MIT License
For the code in this repository.
...

# Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
For the documentation in this repository.

wrangle_in_py © 2025 by Shannon Pflueger, Stephanie Ta, Wai Ming Wong, Yixuan(Clara) Gao is licensed under CC BY 4.0

Please let me know if you would like to use these licenses or different ones!

[waiming]

I tried to compare four common licenses with the LLM helps.

I agreed that MIT License suit our needs already. @Stephanie-Ta suggested that CC By 4.0 for our writing work. I agree with that too since this is good to make sure people reuse our documentation with Attribution Requirement.