Changing license from LGPL to Apache, BSD or MIT?

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Changing license from LGPL to Apache, BSD or MIT? #82

Closed alansaid closed 9 years ago

alansaid commented 9 years ago

I propose we change the license from LGPL to Apache (or the others in the title). The main reason being the low permissiveness of LGPL vs. Apache/BSD/MIT. @abellogin any thoughts?

abellogin commented 9 years ago

After checking https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html , http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/03/24/a-short-guide-to-open-source-and-similar-licenses/ , and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_and_open-source_software_licenses and I agree that LGPL is too narrow. I would go for MIT, but I don't have a strong opinion about that.

alansaid commented 9 years ago

Right, I'll look into some details and change it to either MIT or Apache

alansaid commented 9 years ago

Changed to Apache in 1bf5e7accf14767c64cf06cf0c3e18e70a643c30 closing