Huge licensing issues, EPL is not GPL compatible period.

yvanvds / yse-soundengine

advanced 3D sound engine

Eclipse Public License 1.0

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Huge licensing issues, EPL is not GPL compatible period. #8

Closed mdsitton closed 8 years ago

mdsitton commented 8 years ago

The "Free" licensing for JUICE is GPL your code is EPL. They are completely incompatible see this for more information: https://mmilinkov.wordpress.com/2010/04/06/epl-gpl-commentary/

mdsitton commented 8 years ago

Personally i would like to see the code re-licensed under something that is a bit less restrictive. I'd love to see it under the MIT or BSD licenses(because they are basically always compatible with any licesne) but LGPL is a possibility as well (it has is own license incompatibility issues as far as I understand though.)

mdsitton commented 8 years ago

Also because of this it prevent a ton of open source projects from legally using this library. Basically if i'm interpreting that article correctly, any project that uses a GPL library or is licensed GPL cannot this library. Which is like everything...

mdsitton commented 8 years ago

Just found issue #1 discussing this very issue. I probably should have looked a bit closer at the existing issues... It doesn't make this issue any less problematic though.

mdsitton commented 8 years ago

fixed closing