Want to use pytwain with a GPL-V3 licensed software

denisenkom / pytwain

TWAIN library using ctypes bindings

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Want to use pytwain with a GPL-V3 licensed software #27

Closed yncat closed 3 years ago

yncat commented 3 years ago

Currently, this module is licensed under GPL v2.0. We'd like to use the library in our software, but our code is licensed under GPL v3. There's a conflict between the two GPL versions, meaning that GPL-v3 licensed code cannot import / use v2 licensed modules legally. Could you please consider adding GPL-v3 license for this library?

denisenkom commented 3 years ago

This project was based on http://twainmodule.sourceforge.net/, that is probably where GPL v2.0 is coming from. So I am not sure that I can change it.

yncat commented 3 years ago

Thanks for your comment. Reading the GPL specifications, I don't think you can change it. But I appreciate your clarification!