Choose an open source licence

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Choose an open source licence #64

Open n-peugnet opened 4 years ago

n-peugnet commented 4 years ago

GPLv3+ ?

SylvainJoube commented 4 years ago

Linus Torvalds says GPL v3 violates everything that GPLv2 stood for

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaKIZ7gJlRU

Just sayin'

n-peugnet commented 4 years ago

Ok, interesting. This made me look at the differences between v2 and v3 and then I understood that, as we are making a library we should use a more permissive licence so that people would be able to use it in more programs than just GPLv* ones.

This is why I think maybe we should use LGPL. Now we have to choose the version.

I didn't check exactly the differences between v2 and v3 but Linus says v3 is fine. It is just not what he wants compared to v2.

WDYT @SylvainJoube ?