Is this package licensed under MIT or Apache-2.0?

sethmlarson / virtualbox-python

Complete implementation of VirtualBox's COM API with a Pythonic interface.

https://pypi.org/project/virtualbox

Apache License 2.0

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Is this package licensed under MIT or Apache-2.0? #61

Closed sethmlarson closed 7 years ago

sethmlarson commented 7 years ago

Just noticed this difference while looking at setup.py. Within setup.py it seems that the package is licensed under Apache-2.0 but looking at the contents of LICENSE it shows that the package is licensed under MIT.

Which of these is correct? When that's determined the other should be fixed. cc: @mjdorma

mjdorma commented 7 years ago

Wow, good spot! I'm happy to go with MIT all the way. If you have a counter recommendation I'd be happy to take that onboard too?

sethmlarson commented 7 years ago

I would actually recommend Apache-2.0. It's MIT with an additional provision to protect against malicious patent stuff. It's a more modern take on liberal open source licensing.

mjdorma commented 7 years ago

Great! Let's go apache-2.0 👍 (I'm a licensing noob).

sethmlarson commented 7 years ago

You can read here about Apache-2.0. I know as much about licensing as this page knows about licensing. :P I'll send a PR fixing up LICENSE.