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Contracts for Java
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Provide additional open-source license #50

Open ghost opened 6 years ago

ghost commented 6 years ago

My company and I may be in the same situation as many others: we can't use GPL-licensed libraries. However, cofoja is immensely interesting to us (I'm the CTO and more particularly in charge of developing a graph database, written in Java). Could we have cofoja under e.g. the MIT or Apache license ??

nhatminhle commented 6 years ago

This has been asked before and the only reason Cofoja is not available under another license is because I don't technically own the copyright to most of the code, which was written when I was working at Google, so, unless something can be done there (or I decide to rewrite everything), it's not really up to me, unfortunately.

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My company and I may be in the same situation as many others: we can't use GPL-licensed libraries. However, cofoja is immensely interesting to us (I'm the CTO and more particularly in charge of developing a graph database, written in Java). Could we have cofoja under e.g. the MIT or Apache license ??

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ghost commented 6 years ago

Thank you for the comment. Then, as a CTO and in the face of the serious interest the idea behind cofoja represents to my development team, we hardly have any other option but to re-implement this on our own....

rkraneis commented 5 years ago

This is quite an old thread (and should be closed) but I'd like to make it clear that cofoja is actually LGPL-licensed, which really should be fine for most commercial projects (which don't change the actual library code). But IANAL.