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veer66 / wordcut

Thai word breaker for Node.js

GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0

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License #25

Open elsassph opened 3 months ago

elsassph commented 3 months ago

Hello, library license is LGPL which makes it unsuitable to be used in any actual JS project.

Is that intentional or would you mind updating the license to something more permissive like MIT?

veer66 commented 3 months ago

@piti118 @kobkrit @lvarayut @hainp2604 @artt @pepa65 @kamontat Do you consent to relicense to Apache License 2.0?

piti118 commented 3 months ago

I have nothing against it but I believe most of the code is written by K @veer66 . So I’m voting whatever K Vee said krub.

artt commented 3 months ago

Same for me krub.

pepa65 commented 3 months ago

In what way would the LGPL make it difficult to use Wordcut in a JS project?

Ideologically I prefer GPL-like licenses to MIT-like licenses. That said, if @veer66 decides to change the license, I would be OK. Note that you can also dual license, so people could pick whether the Apache 2.0 license or the LGPL license applies to the code they are using.

elsassph commented 3 months ago

GPL/LGPL were designed for (unix) desktop programs world:

GPL forces everything that touches it to become GPL,
LGPL allows usage in closed-source programs, provided it can be replaced/updated by the user; this works when dealing with dynamically linked libraries, no for a bundled JS app.