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MichaelAquilina / zsh-autoswitch-virtualenv

🐍 ZSH plugin to automatically switch python virtualenvs (including pipenv and poetry) as you move between directories
GNU General Public License v3.0
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LICENSE #185

Open tony opened 1 year ago

tony commented 1 year ago

Hi, thank you for the project!

I don't quite know how GPL works in this scenario of this project.

zsh(1) proper uses GPL, but it's built into a binary.

In this situation (in the "dot-config" ecosystem), it's downstream, I generally see more flexible terms (ISC, MIT, BSD, etc). It's more hospitable to the pace in which scripts moved and how they are shared. I like to keep my .dot-configs in a copy-paste friendly setup so users can take segments they want.

What do you think? What does GPL mean to you in terms of zsh-autoswitch-virtualenv?

MichaelAquilina commented 1 year ago

Hi @tony :) to be honest, I probably just chose the same license I used for everything.

I didnt pick this specific license for any particular reason.

I'm happy to take a suggestion for what the license should be if there are good reasons behind it.

Which one of the licenses would you suggest out of the ones you mentioned?

tony commented 1 year ago

:) Hi @MichaelAquilina

MIT - virtualenv's license, would be most flexible. It is compatible downstream with most major licenses

How does that sound?

MichaelAquilina commented 1 year ago

sounds reasonable to me 👍🏼 would you like to open a PR with that change so we can take it from there :)?

tony commented 1 year ago

@MichaelAquilina

There's 17 committers that committed while the repo was GPLv3.

Since there's no CLA / contributor license agreement covering earlier commits (I'm assuming you're fine with your own commits going from GPL -> MIT, correct me if I'm wrong!), there'd need to be a move.

The most I could offer is:

  1. Make a pull request w/ a forward-looking note, so ongoing commits are MIT licensed

    186

  2. Create a TODO list and notify the contributors asking permission for them to license GPL -> MIT

    Example: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-mock/issues/45#issuecomment-221442457