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uartois / sonar-golang

Sonarqube plugin for the golang language.
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0
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Changing from LGPL 3.0 to Apache 2.0 #39

Closed danielleberre closed 6 years ago

danielleberre commented 6 years ago

One user of the plugin would like to contribute to the plugin but cannot due to the current license of the project conflicting with his employer IP policy.

We initially used LGPL for the plugin because it is the license used by the majority of the sonar plugins.

We welcome contributions from the community and as such are willing to change the current license to Apache 2.0.

Changing the license of the plugin requires all committers of the project to agree with that change.

@dthagard @bobintornado @Tvli @mariusstaicu would you agree to change the license of the project to Apache 2.0?

The change of license would apply in the next release (1.3).

dthagard commented 6 years ago

I'm fine with the change.

On Oct 10, 2017, at 11:38 AM, Daniel Le Berre notifications@github.com wrote:

One user of the plugin would like to contribute to the plugin but cannot due to the current license of the project conflicting with his employer IP policy.

We initially used LGPL for the plugin because it is the license used by the majority of the sonar plugins.

We welcome contributions from the community and as such are willing to change the current license to Apache 2.0.

Changing the license of the plugin requires all committers of the project to agree with that change.

@dthagard @bobintornado @Tvli @mariusstaicu would you agree to change the license of the project to Apache 2.0

The change of license would apply in the next release (1.3).

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bobintornado commented 6 years ago

Sure, I agree

thibaultfalque commented 6 years ago

I agree.

danielleberre commented 6 years ago

@Tvli @mariusstaicu it would be nice if we could have your input on that subject.

thibaultfalque commented 6 years ago

@znerd @maclav3 @Kernle32DLL would you agree ?

znerd commented 6 years ago

I agree.

kernle32dll commented 6 years ago

@thibaultfalque I agree

maclav3 commented 6 years ago

I'm ok with this, sorry for the delay

danielleberre commented 6 years ago

@Tvli @mariusstaicu It would be nice if we could have your feedback on that issue.

Tvli commented 6 years ago

Hi @danielleberre Sorry about the long delay, missed this message completely... I agree with this change.

danielleberre commented 6 years ago

Well, it looks like all code contributors agreed with the change (@mariusstaicu contributed a script on the README page).

So next release 1.3 will be provided under the Apache 2.0 license.

We have to check how to do this properly: released code must stay forever under LGPL 3.0 license, I guess it can be done using an LGPL_3_0 tag on the branches. Need to think about it.

Thanks for your feedback. I am closing the issue now.