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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon sherpa-ai

Relicense under a permissive license

Open KOLANICH opened this issue 6 years ago • 3 comments

GPL is viral, which is inacceptable.

KOLANICH avatar Jan 03 '19 20:01 KOLANICH

Hi @KOLANICH !

Could you elaborate your specific concerns with the GPL? If there is a strong reasoning we would be open to consider relicensing under a permissive license. We found that for now the GPL best fits what we are looking for in a license.

Best, Lars

LarsHH avatar Jan 11 '19 13:01 LarsHH

Could you elaborate your specific concerns with the GPL?

No specific concerns, just don't want to license my code under GPL because I dislike GPL.

KOLANICH avatar Jan 11 '19 18:01 KOLANICH

I would also love to see this happened. Sherpa is a really cool library, but licensing it GPL means any framework that integrates it, would also be forced to license under GPL. I would at least consider licensing it under LGPL so MIT/BSD/Apache licensed software can integrate it. Consider as well that most software in this space is permissively licensed, including the frameworks you are using for sherpa.

mattzque avatar Apr 01 '19 15:04 mattzque