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aotuai / brainframe-qt

🧠🖼️ The official desktop client for BrainFrame, made with Qt
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Consider switching to PySide 6 #7

Open BryceBeagle opened 3 years ago

BryceBeagle commented 3 years ago

LGPL license instead of GPL licensed

apockill commented 3 years ago

This should affect us less once we open source the client, right?

Or does our license have to be GPL to get away with using GPL licenses? I forgot which was which

BryceBeagle commented 3 years ago

This should affect us less once we open source the client, right?

Correct

Or does our license have to be GPL to get away with using GPL licenses? I forgot which was which

Yes. The GPL license is viral (a good thing in my opinion)

BryceBeagle commented 3 years ago

What we can technically do is dual license our code under MIT and GPL. But if we ever distribute our code with the GPL dependencies, that distribution has to be GPL.

Someone could then use our MIT licensed code, modify it to not depend on GPL code, and then distribute that as MIT