boy0001 / FastAsyncWorldedit

Blazingly fast world manipulation for artists, large networks and developers: https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/13932/
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Request to use FAWE without restrictions of GPL #1352

Closed Rubydesic closed 4 years ago

Rubydesic commented 4 years ago

Hello, I'm a developer of Valkyrien Skies, an Apache-2.0 open source licensed mod and we're interested in using the FAWE API for Forge 1.12, could we be granted permission to dynamically link it's API without the constraints of the GPL license, such as under LGPL which the current FAWE is? Under the current GPL license I believe we'd have to change our license from Apache to GPL.

Thanks, this is a really incredible mod that you've made and we'd love to use it to improve ours!

boy0001 commented 4 years ago

Yeah, I can't change the license without consent of all contributors, which isn't likely to happen.

Anyway, the API isn't licensed, just the FAWE code so you should be fine. If you are distributing FAWE code, I think you can have multiple licenses as long as you are clear what license pertains to what code (and that anyone contributing is contributing under the Apache-2.0 license, not GPL).

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Hello, I'm a developer of Valkyrien Skies, an Apache-2.0 open source licensed mod and we're interested in using the FAWE API for Forge 1.12, could we be granted permission to dynamically link it's API without the constraints of the GPL license, such as under LGPL which the current FAWE is? Under the current GPL license I believe we'd have to change our license from Apache to GPL.

Thanks, this is a really incredible mod that you've made and we'd love to use it to improve ours!

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Rubydesic commented 4 years ago

We'll use the API then. Thanks for the incredible mod again!