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datalad / datalad-gooey

A graphical user interface for DataLad (datalad.org)
https://docs.datalad.org/projects/gooey
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Clarify license #288

Closed mih closed 2 years ago

mih commented 2 years ago

We are currently MIT. Pyside is LGPL, it should be no conflict with MIT. However, worth a read to double-check.

mih commented 2 years ago

From https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0.en.html I get that we are OK, if we add a prominent notice that we are using pyside, which is available under LGPL.

We are already loosely coupled to it (e.g., no static linking), and we are not modifying the library. Thereby no restricting user in their choice of the particular libary source version. We squarely fit the LGPL's definition of an application

An “Application” is any work that makes use of an interface provided by the Library, but which is not otherwise based on the Library. Defining a subclass of a class defined by the Library is deemed a mode of using an interface provided by the Library.