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nylen / d3-process-map

Web application to illustrate the relationships between objects in a process using d3.js.
MIT License
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Compatibility between D3.js BSD License and d3-process-map MIT license #16

Closed gwpl closed 7 years ago

gwpl commented 8 years ago

Hi!

I'd love using your work and really appreciate you used MIT permissive license. Please note however, that library you are using - d3 - is using BSD license. Therefore, please coordinate with owner od d3js if is willing to move from BSD to MIT, or consider moving on your side, due to : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/License_compatibility . I am not a lawyer, but it looks like that BSD project can use MIT code not vice versa. Potentially you can consider hybrid -> MIT to all parts not affected by D3, than those affected to be under BSD. (Most permissive approach, but loosing clarity and in practice - boiling down to BSD as common denominator anyway)

Again, Thanks for work! Best regards! Grzegorz Wierzowiecki

nylen commented 7 years ago

The license incompatibilities that I am aware of involve the GPL and other viral licenses that impose requirements on code that uses GPL libraries. Neither the BSD nor MIT licenses contain any such restrictions:

Permissive licences (BSD, MIT, X11, Apache, Zope) are generally compatible and interoperable with most other licences, tolerating to merge, combine or improve the covered code and to re-distribute it under many licences (including non-free or “proprietary”).

-- https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/eupl/og_page/licence-compatibility