Consider moving to a more liberal license

EdwardRaff / JSAT

Java Statistical Analysis Tool, a Java library for Machine Learning

GNU General Public License v3.0

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Consider moving to a more liberal license #75

Closed xamde closed 6 years ago

xamde commented 6 years ago

Hi, I would like to take parts of JSAT, cross-compile them using GWT (your pure-Java style will greatly help) and use them in a (maybe one day commercial) project. Why not just use MIT, BSD or Apache 2.0 license? Thanks for considering!

EdwardRaff commented 6 years ago

Hi xamde, glad JSAT looks like it might be useful!

I have no intentions on changing the license of JSAT, and have discussed this in short in my FAQ. If companies want to use my code for commercial work, they are free to either abide by the GPL or reach out to me for an alternative license in exchange for some kind of compensation.