Metamask-extension: License - move to a standard license

[kumavis]

Move to a standard license. This requires OK from the Ethereum foundation.

Also need a contributor agreement. Parity does a good job of this with their bot + form.

[apotheon]

As I noted in the discussion following the PR, that PR would not actually constitute a change of license -- only changes in whitespace and removal of non-license notes within the license file that are, in fact, misleading descriptions of the license. Please read my comments there for further information.

[s-a-m]

Hi, so I'm a license geek and I would strongly support @apotheon arguments in the PR thread. It has been a year since that discussion, and MetaMask continues with a license that is non-standard, which is causing derived issues, since multiple forks (from the 200+ forks) replicate the same non-standard license by default. In practice, googling for the "Ethereum Project Contributor Asset Distribution Terms", throws only MetaMask derived software. Obviously Ethereum's DevGrants funded also other projects and yet none appears to have that license currently (e.g. syng.io, now renamed. As @apotheon pointed out, the license terms are the same with the modification, so I would move forward to the change (especially if after contacting the Foundation a year ago you received no reply... most probably they don't actually care if it's changed to the standard MIT).

[apotheon]

I'm glad to see this has been resolved. I'm a little disappointed that a pull request that essentially did the exact same work was discarded, leaving the person who initially did this work without any credit in the project's commit history.