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georgemandis / konami-js

Adding the Konami Code easter egg to your projects since 2009! Compatible with gestures on smartphones and tablets as well. Compatible with all front-end frameworks and vanilla JavaScript
http://konamijs.mand.is/
MIT License
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GPL3 #13

Closed gotwalt closed 11 years ago

gotwalt commented 11 years ago

Really?

georgemandis commented 11 years ago

Is this keeping you from using it?

gotwalt commented 11 years ago

Yeah, I wrote my own from scratch. GPL3 + javascript libraries are a terrible idea, unless you only want your code to be used in free (freedom) software, in which case it's perfect. Feels heavy-handed for a library that performs a very simple Easter egg task.

On Sunday, September 1, 2013, George Mandis wrote:

Is this keeping you from using it?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/snaptortoise/konami-js/issues/13#issuecomment-23643503 .

georgemandis commented 11 years ago

I think the GPL3 license might be a hold-over from when I had this hosted on Google Code many, many years ago and they used to make you pick a license (as I'm remembering it...). I'd honestly completely forgotten about it until you opened the issue and I had to reread what this license actually means.

Restricting this library to free software really doesn't bother me and 99% of the people using it just drop it into their blog. For those with different licensing requirements (such as yourself) it's trivial to rewrite.

Do you have an alternate license to suggest before I close the issue?

georgemandis commented 11 years ago

After reading a bit more about GPL3 and looking at other open-source projects I switched it to an MIT license because it seems less insane. Good call.

gotwalt commented 11 years ago

Cool. Thanks!

On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 3:03 AM, George Mandis notifications@github.comwrote:

After reading a bit more about GPL3 and looking at other open-source projects I switched it to an MIT license because it seems less insane. Good call.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/snaptortoise/konami-js/issues/13#issuecomment-23651259 .

sukima commented 11 years ago

There is always http://tritarget.org/wywtpl/ (joking)