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ibaton / 3House

Client for the automation software openHAB.
Eclipse Public License 1.0
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GNU GPL compatible license #60

Closed kirantpatil closed 8 years ago

kirantpatil commented 8 years ago

Hi,

Please use the GNU GPL compatible license.

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html

Thanks.

ibaton commented 8 years ago

Hi @kirantpatil, Could you explain why?

kirantpatil commented 8 years ago

Hi @ibaton, I am raising this issue since EPL is not true Freesoftware.

ibaton commented 8 years ago

@kirantpatil I don't really fancy any opensource licenses in particular, I think that they most often are quite good. But I dont want to move over to using GPL if I don't have to. Especially since the main Openhab project is using EPL (https://github.com/openhab/openhab2/blob/master/LICENSE) and it could prevent the main project from using code from this repository if they wanted to.

Does my thinking make sense? @Human what do you think?

Human commented 8 years ago

@ibaton I'm not sure how much code the core project would need to take from the Android client, and I don't know much about the EPL. I know a lot about the GPL, though. The license you choose should reflect your goals for the project. I do know that EPL and GPL aren't very compatible; you might have to get every contributor to give permission to have their contributions re-licensed under GPL if you wanted to fork the current EPL code base. That does sound like a lot of work, but it's still relatively early in the project's public lifecycle that it'd be doable. I'd certainly agree to license all my contributions as GPL if it's what you want.

All I can recommend is that you look at what can and can't be done with EPL vs GPL, specifically what companies would be allowed to do by using the code base to drive some product that they want to sell.

ibaton commented 8 years ago

We'll keep it as EPL for now. I think it would be a bigger contribution to the OpenHab project overall to keep it the same license as all the other OH stuff out there.