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FugiTech / google-meet-grid-view

Userscript to offer a grid-view layout in Google Meets
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/397862-google-meet-grid-view
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Broken license terms, please consider changing the license of this software to GPL in order to allow evolution #266

Open sebas891 opened 4 years ago

sebas891 commented 4 years ago

The current license terms as stated in the README.md are not allowing anyone but Chris Gamble to fix, to manage the releases and distribute the code of the this extension. This situation is restricting others (us) to fix, releases and distribute this software.

It would be far better for all the users, to have this code license under free software like the GPL license terms. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License#Version_3

Chris can keep the paternity of the software if he wants but at least we could make the software evolve (understand keep it alive) until google decided to incorporate the functionality in meet itself.

Maybe Chris went on doing something else... that would be very nice of him to change the license terms.

Describe what is broken No possibility to fork, fix and distribute the code without breaking the license.

Expected behavior Be able to fork, modify and distribute the code.

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Adambean commented 4 years ago

I would very much agree that the license should be opened up to contributors that are able to carry out compatibility maintenance. Considering how many people use this it would be better for all of us from a quality of live perspective.

Chris Gamble can still have authority on what makes the official releases by controlling pull requests, then from that determine which contributors are trustworthy of helping maintain the master here.