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georust / transitfeed

Public transit serializer/deserializer and manipulation library for Rust
Apache License 2.0
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Relicense to MIT / Apache 2 #17

Closed frewsxcv closed 4 years ago

frewsxcv commented 4 years ago

Most (all?) of the other GeoRust projects are dual-licensed as MIT and Apache v2. @bfrog and @medwards are you okay relicensing this project from MIT to MIT/Apache2? Not a big deal, but the consistency across GeoRust projects would be nice!

medwards commented 4 years ago

If @bfrog is fine with it, I'm fine with it. I have a bunch of lawer-y questions about what this means precisely because I work in corporate environments with increasingly license oversight, can you direct me to some resources or people I can bug?

frewsxcv commented 4 years ago

Hmm what kind of questions do you have? I'm not a lawyer, but depending on the kind of question I can maybe supply some more info

medwards commented 4 years ago

Hey, thanks for getting back to me, sorry about the delay: I was curious about how this works if there are a chain of dependencies, but I think this is largely moot because Apache2/MIT are pretty interchange-able (assuming we're using MIT with a patent grant). The TLDR was whether you pick the license of your dependency if it is dual licensed, and if so, do you then lock anyone who makes you their dependency into that specific license?

teburd commented 4 years ago

I'm fine with this

frewsxcv commented 4 years ago

...do you then lock anyone who makes you their dependency into that specific license?

Apache and MIT are permissive (not copyleft licenses), so users of the transitfeed crate are not locked into using either of these licenses. Or are you wondering something else?