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openlink / structured-data-sniffer

The Openlink Structured Data Sniffer (OSDS) is a plugin for the Chrome, Firefox and Opera browsers that detects and shows structured data embedded in web pages in either JSON-LD, Microdata, RDFa or Turtle format.
http://osds.openlinksw.com/
GNU General Public License v2.0
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strict license GPL v2 #25

Open waldenn opened 1 year ago

waldenn commented 1 year ago

Hi, I was looking at the code to see how the metadata is extracted (to perhaps use it or learn from it, in my own extension based on the WD extension.

That WD extension is licensed as GPL v3. Now, I was reading about the compatibility of GPL v2 / v3 and it seems any codes can't be mixed in this situation: "According to the License compatibility matrix from GNU, if you link your GPLv2 (or later) software with an LGPLv3 library, the effective license for the product becomes GPLv3." - *.

Is there a good reason to have this strict GPL v2 situation, which outweighs the license incompatibility with other projects going forward?

pkleef commented 1 year ago

We will have a discussion within OpenLink Software to see if it is prudent to re-license this work.