Would you consider a license suitable for use as a library in non GPL apps?

[pombredanne]

Hello!
I maintain https://github.com/nexB/scancode-toolkit and I have been looking for such a library which looks really nice (my use case is to remove gibberish from the strings collected from binaries). ScanCode is Apache-licensed. Would you consider some other licensing for nostril, such as any of a classpath-like exception to the GPL, the LGPL or any other permissive license?
Thank you for you kind consideration!

NB: incidentally, scancode may be of some use in the CASICS project.

[mhucka]

Thanks for your query, and my apologies for the long delay in replying. I'm personally okay with doing that, but I need to check with my main coauthor and our institution. I will contact them this week.

[pombredanne]

@mhucka Thank you for looking in to this 🙇

[mhucka]

The institute cleared the way for a license change. It'll be LGPL. I'll put together a new release with the changed license. It might be a little while longer before I can get to it.

[pombredanne]

@mhucka You rock!

[pombredanne]

@mhucka gentle ping... any update?

[mhucka]

I've created a couple of milestones and have made 1.2 be the goal to switch the license. I don't think it will be too hard to do 1.2, but a workshop happening this week prevents me from doing more right now. Sorry for the continued delays...

[pombredanne]

@mhucka that's extremely gentle of you to consider this change and following through on this!

[mhucka]

This is now done!

Thank you for your patience, and also for using Nostril!

[pombredanne]

Thank you very much for this! 🙇‍♂️