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Change GPL-3.0 license to something more permissive

Open joshdchang opened this issue 7 months ago • 0 comments

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This seems like a great library, and I would like to use it for an app I'm building independently. However, since I don't plan to distribute copies of my source code for my app, I can't use this library due to its license. I feel as though the GPL-3.0 license is too restrictive for a project such as this one. There are very few instances when someone would be using a vault in an open source project. A vault, by it's very nature, is supposed to be secret, and is a managed or self-hosted service deployment that costs something and therefore must make money in order to be sustainable. I understand the urge to encourage free and open software, but this license makes this software unusable to most who would want to use it legally. Thank you for considering!

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joshdchang avatar Jul 13 '24 16:07 joshdchang