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TimeWarpEngineering
License collision
It looks (for me) this project cannot use Unlicense license because one of its dependencies (AnyClone) is released under GPL license. So this makes this project GPL as well.
Do you have any references where I can read up on this? I want the most permissive option there is. I don't see why a dependency changes my license. You can fork and remove them as they are not required. If you don't want automatic cloning.
Anyway if you could link to some further information that would be great.
I am already in process of checking out how technically it can be solved without any doubt -- I noticed AnyClone can be replaced with DeepCloner (MIT license) and TypeSupport (AGPL) can be removed completely from the lib because it is not used. I am not sure how this will affect entire project because I had problems building all the parts (my bad, I am not that advanced :-) ).
I am not a lawyer, but this is a good read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPL_linking_exception And I checked the license and I don't see any axception.
But there is another angle to it -- if you want to use the most open license the consumer will be hit with license problem anyway, because you project will cause the inclusion of GPL and AGPL libraries. So it won't be affected directly, but indirectly.
Update; and this is good as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Lesser_General_Public_License#:~:text=The%20main%20difference%20between%20the,GPL%20family%20or%20other%20licenses. So LGPL was created for free linking, but not GPL "The main difference between the GPL and the LGPL is that the latter allows the work to be linked with (in the case of a library, "used by") a non-(L)GPLed program". Again, I am not a lawyer :-)
I think solution to this probably would be to pull out the cloning to its own library/ repo?
It would be solution for sure, but since they are already clone projects with relaxed license, I would use them. No point reinventing the wheel.