License

[mahald]

It's a promising project, but unfortunately it's using GPLv3, which can hinder business adoption.

[AlexCheema]

Hey @mahald what issues are there with this licence? Do you have a suggestion for another licence that would be better?

[mahald]

GPL is often avoided by companies due to potential legal risks, including the obligation to share their own source code if their software is considered a "combined work" with GPL-licensed code, as explained here:

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• Do you want your project to be used as a dependency by other projects? Probably best to use the most popular license in your relevant community. For example, MIT is the most popular license for npm libraries.
• Do you want your project to appeal to large businesses? A large business may be comforted by an express patent license from all contributors. In this case, the Apache 2.0 has you (and them) covered.
• Do you want your project to appeal to contributors who do not want their contributions to be used in closed source software? GPLv3 or (if they also do not wish to contribute to closed source services) AGPLv3 will go over well.

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[silibattlebot]

Large businesses which are afraid of GPLv3 have no need for exo.