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ghostnguyen / HttpClientFillerIssue

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MIT or LGPL over GPL license? #2

Closed michael-hawker closed 3 weeks ago

michael-hawker commented 1 month ago

Hi, I saw your post on the Refit issue about AoT, so I wanted to check-out what you had here available from NuGet and GitHub.

However, I see the project is licensed under GPL like an application, over a more library friendly LGPL or MIT license (like Refit itself is).

GPL means that even just linking/using the library from the NuGet package requires anyone else to also comply their whole application with the GPL terms vs. just being scoped to your library's code as a dependency. See this FAQ question: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#IfLibraryIsGPL

Just wanted to call this out as it may hurt adoption of your library, if that's what you're looking for. Thanks!

michael-hawker commented 1 month ago

Also just noticed this which is confusing in a couple of cases/relation to this question:

https://github.com/ghostnguyen/HttpClientFillerIssue/blob/f84b643c00b34be8e88d243ea844a66d58b029ab/HttpClientFillerCore/HttpClientFillerCore.csproj#L13

ghostnguyen commented 1 month ago

Update license file to MIT.