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BridgesUNCC / bridges-cxx

C++ client library for Bridges
http://bridgesuncc.github.io
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licensing issues #108

Open esaule opened 4 years ago

esaule commented 4 years ago

All, (in particular @krs-world , @j2payton , @esaule ) The question of which software license we should apply to the bridges clients arose because of a wave file parsing library we wanted to use which is released under gpl v3. I am personally a fan of GPL v3. But that license would mean that all student assignment would automatically have to be GPLv3 as well. So I feel that may be too much. I feel like the better one would be LGPL v3. The question is opened to everyone, so let's discuss this.

esaule commented 4 years ago

I did not see any response to that. Should we we go for LGPL? (assigning a few people to make sure you see it)

AlecGoncharow commented 4 years ago

So if I understand this correctly, if we chose LGPLv3 that would shield student code from also being GPLv3? If that's the case then I see no drawbacks. Event still it seems GPLv3 is still a quite permissive license as far as private use goes. As it is unlikely we will run into the issue of trying to distribute compiled binaries of bridges driver code that is also closed source.