change licence to BSD

[j0hnsmith]

I'm no software licencing expert however I noticed that this project uses the AGPLv3 licence.

This summary of the AGPLv3 licence says you can't

• Write BSD or closed source software on top of it: AGPLv3 is designed to keep the code always free, so you can't use nor import AGPLv3 code into a closed source project.

In layman's terms that means that people can't use django-tastypie-mongoengine if they don't share the source of their Django project. I can't use this project due to that restriction, if that's what you intended that's fine (say so and close this issue), if you didn't intend that please change the licence to a BSD or similar (such as Django itself uses) so that restriction is lifted.

[mitar]

Yes. I am aware of this issue. I even talked with people behind AGPL about the need for LAGPL license at the last Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit. So I would prefer copyleft license, which would allow you to link with whatever you want, but if you make changes to the django-tastypie-mongoengine to make it work on your project, you have to publish those changes. But not the whole project.

[j0hnsmith]

My understanding is that with the current licence you can't even use django-tastypie-mongoengine (unmodified) if you're not going to share the source of your entire project (including the non django-tastiepie-mongoengine part).

Hopefully I'm wrong, but for now I won't be using it.

[mitar]

Yes. The current license is like that.