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Mind changing to MIT license? #7

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yonderblue opened this issue Dec 16, 2022 · 7 comments
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Mind changing to MIT license? #7

yonderblue opened this issue Dec 16, 2022 · 7 comments

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@yonderblue
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@im7mortal
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@yonderblue I have no idea about what are the differences between GNU General Public License v3.0 and MIT
Could you add details please?

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yonderblue commented Dec 22, 2022

@im7mortal This page by github is nice and concise in their bulleted points of each: https://choosealicense.com. An (albeit dated) article from github shows most choose MIT https://github.blog/2015-03-09-open-source-license-usage-on-github-com.

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@yonderblue It will take some time for me to read about it and to comprehend it.
I am pretty interesting to understand it for myself also.

Is it a blocker for you? I definitely will not sue you if there will be license violation 🤣

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It is often a big blocker for companies that wish to use the code, would highly recommend changing it if you want more widespread use.

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someburner commented Mar 20, 2023

This is a blocker for sure. It's not just about you suing someone, it's about being in violation of GPLv3 if you ever want to distribute or sell a closed source product that has something in it using a GPLv3 license. Technically once you include GPLv3 code in your project, your project is now GPLv3. If someone wants to use this without that restriction, they have to negotiate a separate license with you.

@im7mortal
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im7mortal commented Apr 1, 2023

@yonderblue @someburner changed license to MIT.
Released version v2.0.0.

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Much appreciated!

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