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antimatter15 / ocrad.js

OCR in Javascript via Emscripten
http://antimatter15.github.io/ocrad.js/demo.html
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:( License!? #25

Open howardroark2018 opened 9 years ago

howardroark2018 commented 9 years ago

Hi!!

GPL license for a client side javascript application? Oh that's so sad. What that means is that, for commercial proprietary software developers, this wouldn't be of any help, as they wont be able to use it, at all! This seriously diminishes the potential of the application to reach a wide range of people! Why not BSD or MIT, or Apache 2.0 perhaps??! ( Tesseract is under Apache 2.0 )

YasharF commented 9 years ago

Yes, MIT license is prefered.

YasharF commented 9 years ago

Is the license supposed to be just a copy of the OCRad's license: https://github.com/antimatter15/ocrad.js/blob/master/ocrad-0.24/COPYING ? I just realized that is GPL2.

If that is the case, may be we just need to have a separate project as a port of Tesseract and deal with it. (I did see the note about your attempt for porting Tesseract by the way).

cburatto commented 7 years ago

+1 for the license update.

But since OCrad is GPLv2, that means this ocrad.js could be GPLv2 as well. AFAIK, GPLv2 is a bit more permissive than GPLv3 with regards to original work -- especially for Web applications. If that is correct, I would suggest changing ocrad.js to GPLv2.

ybh10 commented 1 year ago

Can't use this for my commercial project :(

maciek134 commented 1 year ago

You can, GPL doesn't stop you from taking payments. Write your own OCR if your commercial project cannot be open source (or use tesseract which has a more permissive license)