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The license of this package is 'viral'

Open gisostallenberg opened this issue 3 years ago • 8 comments

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 https://github.com/nunomaduro/larastan/issues/1373

gisostallenberg avatar Dec 02 '22 14:12 gisostallenberg

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

williamdes avatar Dec 02 '22 18:12 williamdes

Hi @ibennetch Did you have some feedback from Conservancy ?

williamdes avatar Jan 21 '23 14:01 williamdes

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

gisostallenberg avatar Mar 21 '23 12:03 gisostallenberg

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.

williamdes avatar Mar 22 '23 10:03 williamdes

LGPL would be fine

gisostallenberg avatar May 12 '23 10:05 gisostallenberg

@niconoe- would LGPL be good for you too ?

williamdes avatar May 12 '23 13:05 williamdes

@niconoe- would LGPL be good for you too ?

Yes! That would be perfect!

thanks a lot !

niconoe- avatar May 12 '23 21:05 niconoe-

I am starting the listing of contributors work on https://github.com/phpmyadmin/sql-parser/issues/448 (https://github.com/phpmyadmin/sql-parser/issues/448#issuecomment-1546615978) And emailed @udan11 about this

Progress is tracked on https://github.com/phpmyadmin/sql-parser/issues/448

williamdes avatar May 13 '23 10:05 williamdes