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[Proposal] Relicense leftwm-theme #30

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mautamu opened this issue Sep 13, 2021 · 2 comments
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[Proposal] Relicense leftwm-theme #30

mautamu opened this issue Sep 13, 2021 · 2 comments
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mautamu commented Sep 13, 2021

Howdy,

While LeftWM itself is MIT licensed, LeftWM-Theme is BSD licensed. Although, to the best of my knowledge, these two licenses are compatible, it may be prudent to relicense LeftWM-Theme with the MIT license to be consistent throughout the LeftWM ecosystem.

I therefore propose the following options:

  1. Leave LeftWM-Theme as BSD, and move LeftWM to BSD
  2. Leave LeftWM as MIT, and move LeftWM-Theme to MIT
  3. Continue with the license discrepancy as-is
  4. Move both LeftWM and LeftWM-Theme to the MPL 2.0

I personally prefer options 2 or 4, as they will allow LeftWM to move closer to being a library upon which many LeftWM flavors might be built while also providing some consistency between the different projects within LeftWM.

I suppose I also should ask why we have the two different licenses to start with, as this change does affect past decisions as well.

Thoughts? Tagging @lex148, @mfdorst, @darkowlzz (as y’all have contributed code to leftwm-theme in the past).

We probably should decide this prior to releasing leftwm-theme on crates.io or Copr.

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Mautamu

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Hi, I don't have any strong opinion. Option 2 sounds good to me.

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mfdorst commented Dec 19, 2021

Sorry I'm late to this. I have no opinion at all.

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