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tarpas / pytest-testmon

Selects tests affected by changed files. Executes the right tests first. Continuous test runner when used with pytest-watch.
https://testmon.org
MIT License
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Change to less restrictive license #225

Closed pascalwhoop closed 8 months ago

pascalwhoop commented 9 months ago

Hi there!

I wanted to voice my concern with the license chosen for this project. Essentially, this project can shave off minutes from various CI projects around the world, drastically cutting back in unnecessary compute workloads. However the AGPL keeps companies from adopting this. As such, projects may be running all the tests all the time unnecessarily simply due to inconvenience of re-writing this for themselves to not be limited by the license.

Would you consider making this slightly less restrictive, e.g. LGPL or MPL?

pascalwhoop commented 9 months ago

alternatively, consider making it available in a way where companies can donate some money and in exchange get to use the license, e.g. via github sponsors?

dmitry-mukhin commented 9 months ago

+1

tarpas commented 8 months ago

Hi Pascal.

I didn't anticipate that this would be a problem. Do you think companies do any derivative work from testmon? I assume it's easy not to include pytest and pytest plugins in production environment and therefore the virality of AGPL is not a problem.

Developers routinely use (GPL licensed) Linux for developing commercial programs and it's not a problem to distribute the result without a source code. Just using AGPL software to develop a web application is also not a problem because you don't do derivative work and don't serve the AGPL software over network.

What do you think?

dmitry-mukhin commented 8 months ago

The problem here is that companies don't have resources to handle such risks. So it's easier just to straight out ban anything GPL related then to fight with various auditors. E.g.: https://opensource.google/documentation/reference/using/agpl-policy/

tarpas commented 8 months ago

Ok, thanks for the link. I'll change the license.

pascalwhoop commented 8 months ago

thx also from my side, as dmitry mentioned, my company and many others just outright ban anything that could get them into trouble. red tape..

dmitry-mukhin commented 8 months ago

@pascalwhoop let's keep this open for visibility? it's easier to track. we'll start using the package again when it's closed after license changed :)

tarpas commented 8 months ago

@dmitry-mukhin @pascalwhoop done and published to PYPI: https://pypi.org/project/pytest-testmon/ . Thanks for reaching out.