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The license of this package is 'viral' #395

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gisostallenberg opened this issue Dec 2, 2022 · 8 comments
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The license of this package is 'viral' #395

gisostallenberg opened this issue Dec 2, 2022 · 8 comments
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@gisostallenberg
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This package has a so called Viral license (GPL-2.0-or-later). Because of the 'viral' aspect of this, AFAIK this means that we are actually unable to use it in a closed source project.
Would it be possible to change this license to a non-viral one?

Related to larastan/larastan#1373

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Thank you for opening an issue, we sent an email to Open Source Software Conservancy about it
We will let you know

@williamdes
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Hi @ibennetch
Did you have some feedback from Conservancy ?

@gisostallenberg
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Hi, I'm just checking in to see if you have an update on this issue.

@williamdes
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Hi everybody,

We are trying to plan a video call to discuss this with Conservancy
Personally I think LGPL would be fine and could be accepted. Would it match for your use on larastan ?

That said, getting all contributors to sign the re-licensing can be quite challenging and take some time.

@gisostallenberg
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LGPL would be fine

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@niconoe- would LGPL be good for you too ?

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@niconoe- would LGPL be good for you too ?

Yes! That would be perfect!

thanks a lot !

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williamdes commented May 13, 2023

I am starting the listing of contributors work on #448 (#448 (comment))
And emailed @udan11 about this

Progress is tracked on #448

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