AriaSalvatrice / AriaModules

Aria Salvatrice's Signature Series - Cool and Nice virtual synthesizer modules
https://aria.dog/modules/
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Relicense to GPL-3.0-only #40

Closed AriaSalvatrice closed 4 years ago

AriaSalvatrice commented 4 years ago

The simplicity (and formal beauty) of the WTFPL served me well while the collection was a bunch of small hacks, but it's now polished software, I want to avoid having it used commercially without giving back to the community.

Given that RMS is no longer in charge of the FSF, I have insufficient long-term trust that the values of the FSF will remain what they have been in the past.
I do not want to use the "any later version" clause when I have no way to know that future licenses won't become less restrictive.

However, I think I'm gonna keep my re-usable components under the WTFPL so the VCV community can benefit from them in commercial & GPL-incompatible modules.

Just gonna license on a file-by-file basis, with a clear boilerplate which is which on each. In general, module = GPL, re-usable library = WTFPL.

Simply documenting my decision here, as there's nothing to debate, since it's a solo project I get to do whatever I want.