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A native Haiku IRC client that is feature filled, fast, lightweight, and stable.
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License definition. #48

Closed rafaga closed 4 years ago

rafaga commented 5 years ago

This repo doesn't have a clear license implementation, maintainer please select a license (with preference something GPL-compatible) to make viable some future contributions.

scottmc commented 5 years ago

Invalid. License is clearly marked as MPL. Closing.

kallisti5 commented 5 years ago

Actually... it isn't super clear from the repo what license Vision is released under. Maybe add a LICENSE file with the contents from http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/ being mindful of MPL 2.0 vs 1.1?

kallisti5 commented 5 years ago

Ah! It's under "dist"

https://github.com/HaikuArchives/Vision/blob/master/dist/LICENSE

Simply moving it to the root would solve most issues. That's also where github expects the license documents to be for identification purposes.

rafaga commented 5 years ago

it is possible to convert it to MPL 2.0 to make it GPL-compatible ?

kallisti5 commented 5 years ago

Not really. Converting licenses is a pain. GPL really shouldn't be a requirement for most to contribute :-) MPL is still an open source license (as is MIT). They're both GPL compatible from a relationship standpoint. Using MIT / MPL code in GPL code doesn't invalidate the GPL (since MPL and MIT are more permissive than GPL)

rafaga commented 5 years ago

I see the reference in FSF and says it is not compatible ... http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/License:MPLv1.1

kallisti5 commented 5 years ago

Ah. Notes say 1.1 isn't compatible. 2.0 might be?

Beyond a licensing theological exercise, are you looking to include Vision sources in a GPL project? Us contacting authors circa 15 years ago to relicense when most of the Haiku folks (myself included) don't like GPL is a tough sell :-)

This issue is getting off-topic. We should move dist/LICENSE into / to make it more accessible.

rafaga commented 5 years ago

MPL 2.0 it is compatible. the problem looking in the FSF documentation is , using MPL 1.1 make illegal to link libraries compiled in GPL with source released with MPL 1.1. So extending functionalities using GPL'd libraries will not be possible.

I agree with you that is becoming sort of off-topic, but I think is important topic to discuss. With the proposed change would be ok. Upgrading the license from 1.1 to 2.0 would be great.

Being pragmatic: what I'm trying to do, is to extend the functionalities in Vision with some GPL libraries. I'm trying to look if there is not legal iusses with that .

scottmc commented 5 years ago

Looking at the Vision recipe on Haikuports I don't see it linking any GPL code, so we have no issue here. If you'd like to add some cool new feature that would require GPL code, then I'd suggest finding a non-GPL alternative library. The viral nature of the GPL is off-putting to many developers. We will keep this issue open until we can get the LICENSE file copied to the root, as it will then show up properly on github. Switching to MPL 2.0 may be an option, but would require the sign off and all previous developers of Vision.

scottmc commented 4 years ago

fixed in f9e8ccd