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busimus / cutelog

GUI for logging
MIT License
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Switch to the MIT license #11

Closed busimus closed 5 years ago

busimus commented 5 years ago

I received a request (see #10) to change the GPLv3 license of the project to a less restrictive one.

I never liked GPLv3 but was forced into licensing the project under it due to having a dependency on a GPLv3 library (PyQt5). After PySide2 (an alternative to PyQt5 that is LGPL licensed) became stable, I changed the code to work with the QtPy abstraction layer that allows the program to run against PyQt5 or PySide2, chosen at runtime. Now there's no legal requirement for the project to be under GPLv3 – a non-GPL program can use an LGPL library with no legal issues.

So I'd like change the project's license to MIT. In order to do that every contributor must agree to relicense their contributions under the new terms. See the contents of the pull request for the full scope of the changes. It will be merged as soon as everyone agrees.

List of contributors who currently agree to the new terms:

Please state whether you agree or disagree to relicense the project in the comments to this pull request (or through other ways of contacting me which you can find in my profile). If you have any concerns, you're free to voice them as well.

Thanks.

luziferius commented 5 years ago

If you wish to switch to MIT, I'm fine with the change.

Should I create a GPG signed empty commit to put the consent into the git history (via commit message)? Then I'll create a pull request against this branch.

busimus commented 5 years ago

Sure, go ahead. Your previous commits were signed, so that would be the proper way to do this.

busimus commented 5 years ago

Alright, it's been a week. In the interest of this process not taking forever, I'll ping everyone again.

@aberrya @luziferius

luziferius commented 5 years ago

Ok, done from my side. https://github.com/busimus/cutelog/pull/12

But don’t squash this PR on merge, as that’ll kill the GPG signatures.

aberrya commented 5 years ago

I agree to change the project's license to MIT.