witnessmenow / arduino-youtube-api

A wrapper around the youtube api for arduino
MIT License
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License Change #30

Closed dmadison closed 4 years ago

dmadison commented 4 years ago

Hi Brian, would you consider changing the license for this library? At the moment it's licensed under GPL v2.0, which I believe means projects that use the library cannot be distributed unless they are open source and also licensed under GPL v2.0.

I would recommend switching to the much more permissive MIT license, or if you'd prefer to keep the copyleft provisions then I would recommend the Lesser General Public License (LGPL). There should be no issue changing the license to either of those two, as both are more permissive than the current license.

witnessmenow commented 4 years ago

Hey, I'll take a proper look at changes later but I'm fine for the library to update to MIT

Brian

On Thu 1 Oct 2020, 13:34 Dave Madison, notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi Brian, would you consider changing the license for this library? At the moment it's licensed under GPL v2.0, which I believe means projects that use the library cannot be distributed unless they are open source and also licensed under GPL v2.0.

I would recommend switching to the much more permissive MIT license https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT, or if you'd prefer to keep the copyleft provisions then I would recommend the Lesser General Public License (LGPL) https://opensource.org/licenses/LGPL-3.0. There should be no issue changing the license to either of those two, as both are more permissive than the current license.

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dmadison commented 4 years ago

Thanks for the quick response Brian. I'll try to put together a pull request with the license change in the next day or so.

witnessmenow commented 4 years ago

Fixed in #33 , thanks