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Password policy enforcement for Java.
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Update readme re:licensing #122

Closed cosmin-marginean closed 4 years ago

cosmin-marginean commented 4 years ago

I tried inquiring about licensing to passay@googlegroups.com, as per Readme, but I've received an automatic response

We're writing to let you know that the group you tried to contact (passay) may not exist, or you may not have permission to post messages to the group

In any case, we're interested in using Passay in our closed-source (proprietary) project as a binary, but I wasn't able to tell if this possible with the current licensing structure. Would you be able to confirm the impact of the dual licensing when using Passay as a binary (.jar) dependency only?

dfish3r commented 4 years ago

I've had a lot of trouble with those google groups since the upgrade, posting here is fine.

The dual licensing just allows you to pick the one which best serves your needs. i.e. you can't use both licenses. AFAIK (and it's one of the reasons we choose them) both LGPL and Apache2 can be used by closed source, proprietary software. So it's just a matter of which one you prefer.

cosmin-marginean commented 4 years ago

That's great, thank you so much!