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relicense from AGPL to MIT

Open daroczig opened this issue 6 months ago • 18 comments

Although I thought (10+ years ago) that AGPL-3 effectively addressed the potential issue of SaaS companies taking advantage of open-source software without contributing back, the licensing terms seem to be confusing and interpreted differently by orgs and lawyers. Given the multiple requests from the past years I've received to relicense to a more permissive license, and my current belief that logger does not benefit from the restrictions of AGPL -- I am hereby starting the relicensing process to MIT.

To do so, I need approval from all copyright holders (past contributors):

  • [x] @Polkas
  • [x] @hadley
  • [x] @philaris
  • [ ] @amy17519
  • [x] @deeenes
  • [x] @MichaelChirico
  • [x] @artemklevtsov
  • [x] @stPhena
  • [x] @earino
  • [x] @averissimo
  • [x] @jozefhajnala
  • [x] @atheriel
  • [x] @pawelru
  • [x] @aaelony
  • [ ] @terashim
  • [x] @DanChaltiel
  • [x] @burgikukac
  • [x] @kpagacz
  • [x] @tdeenes

I know this is painful and boring, but the relicensing can only happen if I get acceptance from everyone, so please kindly reply below stating:

I accept the change of logger's license to MIT.

Otherwise, please feel free to let me know your concerns, questions etc.

Thanks for your past contributions and your help in this process as well!

daroczig avatar Aug 04 '24 22:08 daroczig