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saprykin / plibsys

Highly portable C system library: threads and synchronization primitives, sockets (TCP, UDP, SCTP), IPv4 and IPv6, IPC, hash functions (MD5, SHA-1, SHA-2, SHA-3, GOST), binary trees (RB, AVL) and more. Native code performance.
MIT License
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Switch to MIT license #71

Closed saprykin closed 6 years ago

saprykin commented 6 years ago

It seems that the LGPL 2.x-3.x license is not the best way to distribute software that could be used in commercial purposes, especially for development of applications for Apple's AppStore. It is still possible to somehow use LGPL licence for developers, but it doesn't make their life better. We need either to add a static linkage exception to the license (which means it would be a new license derived from LGPL, basically it something similar to what Mozilla did with MPL), or to switch to another license.

MIT license looks like a good candidate for that.

solvingj commented 6 years ago

If you had some reason for using LGPL and you wish to offer the option, you can do dual-licensing. Here are some projects which do this today:

https://libcxx.llvm.org/ https://github.com/actor-framework/actor-framework https://github.com/log4cplus/log4cplus#license

saprykin commented 6 years ago

Switched to MIT license.