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Open-source transpiled programming language that helps you write clean code, well-designed systems, and build high-quality software that is testable, auditable and maintainable. Like what you see? Don't forget to star! :star: ^^^
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GPL3 for boilerplate #448

Open neg3ntropy opened 1 year ago

neg3ntropy commented 1 year ago

I was playing with the ddd-hexagonal-cqrs-es-eda demo project and noticed that, while that is MIT licenses, other bitloops packages used in there are not. For example the module @bitloops/bl-boilerplate-core comes with a standard GPL3 license.

As far as I understand, this precludes usage, even without alterations, in any closed source program and it's a huge red flag if not a complete showstopper in many organizations.

Personally I am a huge supporter of Free Sowftware and the GPL, but I don't see it making sense here.

danias commented 1 year ago

Hi @neg3ntropy thanks a lot for checking out the repo and for your feedback.

Correct me if I am wrong but as long as you do not change the packages themselves, you should be able to use whatever license you wish on the generated files. We will be adding an option during the transpilation for you to select your own license for the transpiled files. The license of the packages you are using should not dictate the overall license of your project as long as you do not alter those files.

In any case, there is a good chance we will remove these packages in the next couple of weeks to reduce the dependencies and change their licenses to either MIT or Apache 2.0.

neg3ntropy commented 1 year ago

Hi @danias, thanks for the reply.

I believe that what you want is maybe achieved by the LGPL variant of the license. Plain old GPL does not allow derivative work as closed source.

Regardless, MIT or Apache probably are a lot less of a concern in the enterprise.