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bbodi / notecalc3

NoteCalc is a handy calculator trying to bring the advantages of Soulver to the web.
https://bbodi.github.io/notecalc3/
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
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License unfavourable #5

Closed charleschege closed 7 months ago

charleschege commented 3 years ago

The AGPL license is not favourable for widespread usage whether commercially or with a lot of other open source licences. Would you consider replacing the current license with something like Apache-2.0?

bbodi commented 3 years ago

Hi,

Valid concern. I will revisit my reasoning behind the current license and will see, thanks for bringing it up.

Btw, are you in any particular situation in which the current license would be a limitation, or are you just concerned generally about it?

charleschege commented 3 years ago

I am generally concerned about this because your software is more likely to be used together with other software, for example it might be incorporated into a school software system where many other libraries are used, and these libraries might carry other open source or proprietary licences that might be incompatible with AGPL. If you want to commercialise this project, I suggest that you look into a business model where you can have a platform as a service model which is cloud based and proprietary but the core software is open to use through MIT or Apache-2.0 license