Relicense to a dual license?

achanda / ipnetwork

A library to work with CIDRs in rust

Apache License 2.0

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Relicense to a dual license? #127

Closed CameronNemo closed 4 years ago

CameronNemo commented 4 years ago

The Apache 2.0 license is more complicated than it needs to be, and the patent clause can get in the way in some scenarios. I would like to respectfully ask that the author, @achanda, and other contributors (primarily @faern) agree to add a second license that does not mention patents (BSD-2-Clause, MIT, BSD-3-Clause, 0BSD, are all great options). This is common in Rust projects that I have seen (including the language implementation itself).

faern commented 4 years ago

MIT OR Apache-2.0 is basically the de facto standard license for most crates on crates.io. I don't have anything against adopting said dual license in this crate.

achanda commented 4 years ago

Thanks for bringing this up. I have opened a PR.