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LukasBanana / LLGL

Low Level Graphics Library (LLGL) is a thin abstraction layer for the modern graphics APIs OpenGL, Direct3D, Vulkan, and Metal
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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License #52

Closed julianxhokaxhiu closed 4 years ago

julianxhokaxhiu commented 4 years ago

Hi,

I was checking the License more carefully and I noticed that this library is using none of the well-known licenses. Therefore I was here to actually ask if there is a plan on using anyone of them like MIT, Apache or GPL?

I was planning in using this in one of my projects, but at the current state I'm a bit concerned about consequences in using your code on top of mine.

Thank you in advance for any clarification given.

NoFr1ends commented 4 years ago

3-Clause BSD License is well known? https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause

LukasBanana commented 4 years ago

I'm using the BSD 3-Clause license, which I maybe should make more explicitly visible. But it's very similar to MIT and zlib/libpng license. Even the Linux kernel uses the BSD 2-Clause to which the 3-Clause version is only an extension with a 3rd clause which prohibits promoting a derived project with the name of the original author without written permission.

I don't see how this is an issue for open source projects. BSD 3-Clause is even an approved by the Open Source Initiative. You can use LLGL for both open-source and closed-source as well as commercial and non-commercial projects.

GPL is a no-go for me, because you basically need a lawyer to fully understand the wall of text and makes the library inaccessible for closed-source projects. Only the LGPL allows to load open-source libraries into closed-source projects via dynamic linkage, which I don't want LLGL limit to either.

julianxhokaxhiu commented 4 years ago

Nice and clear! I'm usually using MIT for all my projects, but I missed that this is a BSD 2-Clause. If you could update the license to better reflect that it would make it perfect.

Thank you!

LukasBanana commented 4 years ago

Sorry for the misunderstanding, but this is a BSD 3-Clause, I only said it's basically an extension to the BSD 2-Clause. I can add this information to the LICENSE.txt file to make it more clear though.

LukasBanana commented 4 years ago

Btw: The BSD version is explicitly mentioned in the README.md file: https://github.com/LukasBanana/LLGL#license

I'd like to avoid touching the LICENSE.txt file and most other projects using this license seem to have the same scheme, i.e. not explicitly mentioning the license version in the header.

julianxhokaxhiu commented 4 years ago

Actually fixing the LICENSE.txt file would also provide the information on Github on the Repository information bar, on the far right side.

But it's fine, being in the README is fine :) My bad, I skipped checking it there. Thanks anyway!