Granting more permissive license to integrate upstream

[pelletier]

Some of the implementations in this repository are drop-in replacement for standard Go library functions. Contributing them back upstream, to golang/go, could benefit the ecosystem as a whole with little drawback to Twilio Segment, as segmentio/asm is already released under the permissive MIT license. However, we did not anticipate the attribution requirement of this license to prevent its adoption in the standard library (example: utf8.Valid CL). It is a non-starter to include derivatives of MIT-licensed code in the Go standard library, because it would force all people who distribute Go program binaries to include the license and copyright assignment to Segment.

As a result, would you consider re-licensing the code in this repository to permit its integration into Go without attribution?

For example: MIT-0 ("MIT No Attribution License").

Thank you!

[kevinburkesegment]

If we relicensed, do you think we could continue to include information about where this code was developed? Ie, a header that says "Code developed at Segment (https://github.com/segmentio/asm)" or similar.

[achille-roussel]

Hello Kevin, thanks for getting back to us!

We can add the mention you suggested as a comment in the source, but this cannot be legally binding Go to a software license; it would only be informational.

[peterdemartini]

Heyyo! We've submitted an open source review to see if this is something we can do. I will post back here with an update when I hear back.

[kevinburkesegment]

this cannot be legally binding Go to a software license

Oh for sure I just think it would be good to make sure people know where the code was developed.

[achille-roussel]

Hello @peterdemartini @kevinburkesegment!

Do you have updates to share on this issue?

[peterdemartini]

@achille-roussel no update yet, I will request an update on the internal ticket

[pelletier]

Thank you so much everybody! I'll update the upstream CL with the good news.