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go-vgo / robotgo

RobotGo, Go Native cross-platform RPA and GUI automation @vcaesar
Apache License 2.0
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robotgo uses gohook package that has an incompatible gplv3 license #183

Closed faik closed 5 years ago

faik commented 5 years ago

github.com/robotn/gohook is a GPLv3 licensed software. According to Apache 2 license you can't include a GPLv3 licensed software into an Apache licensed software.

This is from https://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html

"Apache 2 software can therefore be included in GPLv3 projects, because the GPLv3 license accepts our software into GPLv3 works. However, GPLv3 software cannot be included in Apache projects. The licenses are incompatible in one direction only, and it is a result of ASF's licensing philosophy and the GPLv3 authors' interpretation of copyright law."

Also anyone using this library seeing as Apache 2 licensed without noticing this would be linking to a GPLv3 library.

vcaesar commented 5 years ago

Here is just import and vendor by go mod, vendor is the vendor. The project does not distribute and include them. You should not directly modify the code in the vendor. The project's license does not take effect for vendor.

vcaesar commented 3 years ago

And Robotgo is primarily distributed under the terms of "both the MIT license and the Apache License (Version 2.0)", So you can License with MIT.