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adtac / climate

The swiss-army knife of utility tools for Linux.
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Use GPL and not AGPL license #7

Closed tedyoung closed 8 years ago

tedyoung commented 8 years ago

Usually AGPL is used for applications that are only used on a server (i.e., aren't downloaded to the end user). I think AGPL is not appropriate for a shell helper tool, so this is a request to change the license to GPL (or MIT/BSD) to be friendlier to places where AGPL may not be allowed.

adtac commented 8 years ago

Ah, I was not aware of that. Actually, I'm not that educated with licenses. I'm a maintainer for https://github.com/coala/coala and the original author of that used AGPL. So I didn't even look into the differences used whatever they did :P

Thanks for pointing it out, I'll change it :+1: (BTW do I need to get permission from everyone who's contributed to this project to change licenses?)

sils commented 8 years ago

You cannot change license unless you ask every contributor AFAIK.

adtac commented 8 years ago

Alright, @massard-t is it alright with you if I change the license to GPL v3? (hah, that was easy, only one person to ask)

tbobm commented 8 years ago

Of course not, that's fine by me.

adtac commented 8 years ago

Great, I'll make the change :+1: