License trouble (GPL)

Open mara004 opened this issue 1 year ago • 3 comments

The GPL is quite problematic for something as fundamental as an import utility. It means that any open-source project which strives to be liberal-licensed cannot use this package. Is there any chance of getting the license changed to something more permissive, such as BSD, Apache, MPL, LGPL or similar?

Jul 12 '24 14:07 mara004

I would like to, but this package is based on Mercurial's demandimport.py which is GPLv2.

Jul 15 '24 09:07 bwesterb

I see... The Readme says Matt Mackall is the original author.[^1] Has anyone yet attempted to ask them whether they would be willing to relicense this portion of code?

[^1]: though I hear they seem to have renamed themselves to Olivia Mackall

Jul 15 '24 10:07 mara004

I'm not aware of anyone reaching out. Please feel free to do so.

Jul 15 '24 10:07 bwesterb