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Alir3z4 / html2text

Convert HTML to Markdown-formatted text.
alir3z4.github.io/html2text/
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Change the license #366

Closed jarekwg closed 1 year ago

jarekwg commented 3 years ago

Hiya,

GPL3 is a strong copyleft license; it prevents this code from being used in commercial projects.

There was a similar issue raised originally here, which just quietly fell by the wayside: https://github.com/aaronsw/html2text/issues/41

This is a great library, but completely shuts out a large portion of the developer community. :/

Any chance we could get it changed to eg. MIT or BSD-3-CLAUSE or APACHE-2.0?

Cheers,

Spoonrad commented 2 years ago

I very strongly support this! Our company wants to use this library but this is completely impossible with the very restrictive licence you have chosen to use. Given that you do not have any commercial licencing available and are clearly not trying to make profit from this library, I would kindly request that you change the licence to a more flexible licence for companies that use proprietary software (see suggestions made by @jarekwg)

Would you envision this? I look forward to your feedback, thank you. :)

@Alir3z4

devfox-se commented 2 years ago

I support this proposal as well. @Alir3z4 any input on this?

branislav-brujic commented 2 years ago

I totally agree with you guys.

danielpunkass commented 1 year ago

I am also interested in a non-GPL-encumbered version of this library, but I'm not sure it would be too simple to change the license especially considering the originator of the library has passed away. You need to get permission from all the contributors to allow relicensing their code using the proposed license, at least as far as I understand things.

adulau commented 1 year ago

I'm strongly opposed to the change of the license (and you cannot change without having the approval of the contributors and all the author-rights owners).

The original author and contributors make contributions under a known open source license which protect also freedom and ensuring new contributions are kept under an open source license.

If you don't like the license and don't support the copyleft philosophy, nothing block you to reimplement the software under a different license.

Alir3z4 commented 1 year ago

Comment https://github.com/Alir3z4/html2text/issues/366#issuecomment-1374796496 has summaried it perfectly. (Thank you @adulau )

Long live GPLv3 and copyleft philosophy.