Consider using a more permissive license

lipk / rust-gdb

A small Rust library for controlling GDB.

GNU General Public License v3.0

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Consider using a more permissive license #7

Open afonso360 opened 7 years ago

afonso360 commented 7 years ago

GPLv3 is not a very good license for libraries, it imposes restrictions on everyone who tries to use your library. Thus reducing adoption.

Have you considered using a strategy similiar to what libgit2 has done? It allows your library to remain GPLv3, all your contributions remain GPLv3 but other software can link with your library as they please. This solves the incompatibilities between many licenses and GPL.

libgit2 license

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lipk commented 7 years ago

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll consider it. However, I need to do some research as to whether Apache or MIT is viable at all considering that the library is built on top of GDB which is GPL-licensed.