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sherpa-ai / sherpa

Hyperparameter optimization that enables researchers to experiment, visualize, and scale quickly.
http://parameter-sherpa.readthedocs.io/
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Relicense under a permissive license #19

Open KOLANICH opened 5 years ago

KOLANICH commented 5 years ago

GPL is viral, which is inacceptable.

LarsHH commented 5 years ago

Hi @KOLANICH !

Could you elaborate your specific concerns with the GPL? If there is a strong reasoning we would be open to consider relicensing under a permissive license. We found that for now the GPL best fits what we are looking for in a license.

Best, Lars

KOLANICH commented 5 years ago

Could you elaborate your specific concerns with the GPL?

No specific concerns, just don't want to license my code under GPL because I dislike GPL.

mattzque commented 5 years ago

I would also love to see this happened. Sherpa is a really cool library, but licensing it GPL means any framework that integrates it, would also be forced to license under GPL. I would at least consider licensing it under LGPL so MIT/BSD/Apache licensed software can integrate it. Consider as well that most software in this space is permissively licensed, including the frameworks you are using for sherpa.