Consider licensing adjustment ("GPL with exceptions")

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Ceres - an MCTS chess engine for research and recreation

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Consider licensing adjustment ("GPL with exceptions") #9

Closed dje-dev closed 3 years ago

dje-dev commented 3 years ago

From Crem: While it doesn't have too many authors, it may make sense to re-license it to "GPL with exception" rather than simple "GPL", so that it could be bundled with nvidia cudnn libraries.

From borg @dje I suggest the exception wording from Leela Zero, they have added TensorRT to the exceptions. See https://github.com/leela-zero/leela-zero/issues/2032

dje-dev commented 3 years ago

As also suggested by Crem: If Ceres will have exceptions to GPL added, maybe it will also make sense to add some Microsoft .net-related libraries there, not only nvidia. (if it's considered to eventually run it on android, asm-js or google cloud/TPU).

mooskagh commented 3 years ago

As also noted in the same chat, it makes sense to have it licensed under "GPLv3 or later" rather than just "GPLv3". https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#VersionThreeOrLater

dje-dev commented 3 years ago

Closed with commit 96da170bcf9ea64a10c06dc5f78e1fcc69edfd58