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Hiroshiba / become-yukarin

Convert your voice to favorite voice
https://hiroshiba.github.io/blog/became-yuduki-yukari-with-deep-learning-power/
MIT License
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Some advice about license compliance #74

Open Ashley123456789 opened 1 year ago

Ashley123456789 commented 1 year ago

Hello, such a nice repository benefits me a lot and so kind of you to make it open source!

Question There’s some possible legal issues on the license of your repository when you combine numerous third-party packages. For instance, argparse, numpy and datetime you imported are licensed with Python Software Foundation License, BSD License and Zope Public License, respectively. However, the MIT license of your repository are less strict than above package licenses, which has violated the whole license compatibility in your repository and may bring legal and financial risks.

Advice You can select another proper license for your repository, or write a custom license with license exception if some license terms couldn’t be summed up consistently.

Best wishes!

Hiroshiba commented 1 year ago

Hi!!!

I am distributing code that only imports those libraries. Where might there be licensing issues?

Ashley123456789 commented 1 year ago

Thanks for your response! More developers (including the Free Software Foundation) consider imports as one of the styles of making derivative works, thus involving license issues. So the license compatibility here is also of concern. Some helpful links: https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/2139/can-i-license-python-project-under-3-clause-bsd-while-it-has-gpl-based-dependenc https://stackoverflow.com/questions/999468/question-on-importing-a-gpled-python-library-in-commercial-code