Update LICENSE to BSD 3-Clause

[cryolune]

Description

This PR updates the License of PecAn Status Board to BSD 3-Clause

Motivation and Context

Review Time Estimate

• Immediately
• Within one week
• When possible

Checklist:

• My change requires a change to the documentation.
• My name is in the list of CITATION.cff
• I have updated the CHANGELOG.md.
• I have updated the LICENSE
• I have updated the documentation accordingly.
• I have read the CONTRIBUTING document.
• I have added tests to cover my changes.
• All new and existing tests passed.

[cryolune]

@infotroph Could you please review the changes in the license?

[infotroph]

Thanks for doing this! While we're at it, let's bring the license format in line with the CRAN requirement for R packages, (which is kinda weird compared to packages in most other languages, TBH). Following the format recommended by usethis, can you please:

• In DESCRIPTION, change License: NCSA to License: BSD_3_clause + file LICENSE.
• Move the actual license text from LICENSE to LICENSE.md
• Confirm that .Rbuildignore contains a line matching LICENSE.md so that it's provided to everyone who downloads the source code but is not included in the installed package.
  • It is a CRAN requirement to not include the license text in the built package; I disagree with this but we follow it anyway.
  • My understanding of their reasoning is that R provides built-in ways to read the text of all the standard licenses, so providing another copy of it in every package is super-redundant even though each individual copy is small.
• Edit the LICENSE file to contain only the following text (think of this as a template to fill in the blanks in the BSD license)

  YEAR: 2024
  COPYRIGHT HOLDER: PEcAn Project
  ORGANIZATION: PEcAn Project, authors affiliations
  

[cryolune]

@infotroph As you suggested, these changes have been completed. Apologies for the delay :)

[infotroph]

Thanks! This all looks great.

[infotroph]

@cryolune I'm going to merge this but I see the push-pull check is failing -- would you have time and interest to take a look? I wonder if it's time to update the runner from 20.04 to a newer Ubuntu image.

[cryolune]

Sure thing! I also noticed that other workflows are failing and the dashboards haven’t been updated for the past few years. I’ll start working through these issues one by one. It’s definitely time to give the dashboards an upgrade.