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mabe02 / lanterna

Java library for creating text-based GUIs
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0
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LGPL + GraalVM clarification? #590

Open Lilianne-Blaze opened 6 months ago

Lilianne-Blaze commented 6 months ago

Could you please clarify if it's allowed to use Lanterna in non-LGPL (commercial closed-source) GraalVM projects? The obvious answer seems it would be impossible because GraalVM uses static (as opposed to dynamic in 'normal' Java) linking?

I don't suppose there are any chances of dual-licensing with something more permissive like MIT or Apache?

Alternatively, if a project needs to be a two-parter anyway (Windows service - which needs to run as admin and can't have gui - plus a simple gui basically with tray icon and a console), would it be ok to open source only the gui part, after making it more generic so it's suitable for use with other projects?

mabe02 commented 5 months ago

I'm not a lawyer so I'm not sure what restrictions LGPL puts on running things in GraalVM. Personally I don't mind, obviously :)

At one point I was looking into re-licensing the library as Apache, but it turns out that I would need to reach out to every single contributor and get their approval, so I gave up.

davydotcom commented 3 months ago

Hello,

Firstly thanks for this library! I too was wondering about the same license use case and was wondering if maybe an issue could be made allowing past contributors to accept a change to Apache/MIT as I have seen something along these lines on other projects.