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Matomo iOS, tvOS and macOS SDK: a Matomo tracker written in Swift
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Change iOS SDK license from MIT to BSD-3 #212

Closed mattab closed 6 years ago

mattab commented 6 years ago

Hi @brototyp

Currently most of our SDKs (Android, PHP, C#, Java...) are under BSD-3 license. iOS is the only SDK remaining under MIT license. For consistency it would be great to change the license of the project to BSD-3. The licenses are almost the same and it won't change anything for users or us, just be more consistent.

You can find the file here: https://github.com/piwik/piwik-sdk-android/blob/master/LICENSE

I think the only change needed is to update the LICENSE file in the project?

Thanks!

brototyp commented 6 years ago

Hi @mattab, imho changing the license in an open source project isn't that easy if there are multiple contributors. Every single contributor would have to have to give her/his permission since it is their code and they agreed to distribute it under the old license. See for example this thread.

mattab commented 6 years ago

Technically that's absolutely right, but since the license are almost the same and are fully compatible, and you contributed most of the code, I would not worry about it in this case, nobody would complain about it.

brototyp commented 6 years ago

Honestly I don't feel to good going this way. I value every little commit and I feel going this way would send the wrong kind of signal. If the "only" cause is consistency (which I am usually all in for) I would vote to postpone the License change until the next rewrite (that will eventually come 😊). Are you fine with that?

mattab commented 6 years ago

Sure it makes sense to wait for the next rewrite. it was only a suggestion :+1:

brototyp commented 6 years ago

Alright. Will close this for now.