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mbroadst / qamqp

AMQP 0.9.1 implementation for Qt
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Closed apomykal closed 9 years ago

apomykal commented 9 years ago

I noticed the license changed at some point from MIT to the GNU GPL and was wondering about the history behind this. Thx.

mbroadst commented 9 years ago

@apomykal because I wanted to make sure that the project continues to grow and thrive in the open source world. MIT has no provision that modifications to this source base are ever contributed back, while the LGPL does

AdamMajer commented 9 years ago

On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 01:47:28PM -0800, Andrew Pomykal wrote:

I noticed the license changed at some point from MIT to the GNU GPL and was wondering about the history behind this. Thx.

There are whole modules of Qt licensed under LGPL whether you buy commercial license or not, so this should not be an issue. For example, Qt Webkit module is LGPL.

QAMQP may need an exception similar to Qt's LGPL exception for inline functions.

apomykal commented 9 years ago

Thanks, appreciate the timely response.

mbroadst commented 9 years ago

@apomykal no problem, let us know if you have any issues but I think you'll find the LGPL, while lacking in certain respects, generally promotes free growth in public and private sectors for open source projects. Thanks for your interest in the project