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Dual license as Apache v2 and MIT

Open gaul opened this issue 3 years ago • 2 comments

Describe the feature

Distribute the C++ SDK under two liberal licenses.

Use Case

s3fs is licensed as a GPLv2 or later program. GPLv2 is not compatible with Apache v2 and thus the license effectively upgrades to GPLv3 or later.

Proposed Solution

Dual license the SDK like Rust does:

https://www.rust-lang.org/policies/licenses

Other Information

Some discussion about Apache and GPL licenses:

https://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html

Further StackOverflow discussion which states and incompatibility with GPLv2:

https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/1357/can-i-link-a-apache-2-0-library-into-software-under-gplv2

Acknowledgements

  • [ ] I may be able to implement this feature request
  • [ ] This feature might incur a breaking change

gaul avatar Jul 31 '22 11:07 gaul

Thanks for this suggestion, we are looking into this. I will make sure to include any updates here.

jmklix avatar Aug 02 '22 18:08 jmklix