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t-sin / inquisitor

Encoding/end-of-line detection and external-format abstraction for Common Lisp

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Licensing #48

Open t-sin opened 7 years ago

t-sin commented 7 years ago

Now inquisitor is licensed under the MIT license, but is it right? For it I should do two things: survey and decision.

TODO

[x] check license
- [x] original code of Gauche → MIT
- [x] Masayuki Onjo's portion → Dual licensed: GPL and BSD 2-clause
- [x] zqwell's portion → GPL (v2? v3?)
  - [x] libguess? → MIT
[ ] decide license of inquisitor that is compatible all above

ryukinix commented 5 years ago

Any GPL related license of the mentioned projects? That can become quickly cancerous-spreading if it is used. I would like that inquisitor use something like:

MIT (like now)
BSD
Apache

GPLv3 specifically with reciprocity it have a terrible permissive behavior. I don't like it personally. I think the freedom should be about the individual as first-class citizen!

Awesome project, by the way.

t-sin commented 5 years ago

The ancestor codes written with Common Lisp are licensed under two license: GPL (I don't know the version) and BSD 2-clause.

In (Common) Lisp world, It seems that projects loaded with Quicklisp are regarded as derivatives in terms of GPL, so I want to avoid pure GPL or I prefer to use LLGPL created by Franz Inc.

Hmmm, it's complicated... :thinking:

Awesome project, by the way.

Anyway, thank you!:wink:

t-sin commented 3 years ago

2 years ago...

I must act to this problem but I don't know what can I do. I want to change the license to non-GPL license but (maybe) I can't because I'm not author of character encoding detection parts. I'm not sure about software licensing.

Please tell me what I can do about this.