[Urwid] Urwid license

[Ian Ward]

Tony Narlock has suggested switching the Urwid license to an MIT or
BSD license. He's raised some issues with LGPL and the difficulty of
interpreting it with a Python library like Urwid.

https://github.com/wardi/urwid/issues/41

I'm not opposed to the idea, but it will involve contacting quite a
few contributors to get their permission. If some people don't give
permission then we would have to consider if switching licenses was
worth removing their work from Urwid. i.e. this is not fun or
interesting work, but it might be good for the library.

If you have relevant information for this discussion, please add it to
the ticket above.

I contribute code to proprietary commercial, AGPL, GPL, LGPL, and
BSD/MIT licensed projects. I'm not interested in the politics of
licensing, just the practical advantages and disadvantages. I also
don't want to start a flame war here on our peaceful mailing list.

Ian

[Andreas Kloeckner]

Post by Ian Ward
Tony Narlock has suggested switching the Urwid license to an MIT or
BSD license. He's raised some issues with LGPL and the difficulty of
interpreting it with a Python library like Urwid.
https://github.com/wardi/urwid/issues/41
I'm not opposed to the idea, but it will involve contacting quite a
few contributors to get their permission. If some people don't give
permission then we would have to consider if switching licenses was
worth removing their work from Urwid. i.e. this is not fun or
interesting work, but it might be good for the library.
If you have relevant information for this discussion, please add it to
the ticket above.
I contribute code to proprietary commercial, AGPL, GPL, LGPL, and
BSD/MIT licensed projects. I'm not interested in the politics of
licensing, just the practical advantages and disadvantages. I also
don't want to start a flame war here on our peaceful mailing list.

FWIW, +1 for MIT/BSD-ish.

Andreas
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[Thomas S Hatch]

I would agree here, I have seen many companies refuse to use LGPL code.

Thomas S. Hatch | Founder, CTO


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On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 5:54 AM, Andreas Kloeckner

Post by Andreas Kloeckner

Post by Ian Ward
Tony Narlock has suggested switching the Urwid license to an MIT or
BSD license. He's raised some issues with LGPL and the difficulty of
interpreting it with a Python library like Urwid.
https://github.com/wardi/urwid/issues/41
I'm not opposed to the idea, but it will involve contacting quite a
few contributors to get their permission. If some people don't give
permission then we would have to consider if switching licenses was
worth removing their work from Urwid. i.e. this is not fun or
interesting work, but it might be good for the library.
If you have relevant information for this discussion, please add it to
the ticket above.
I contribute code to proprietary commercial, AGPL, GPL, LGPL, and
BSD/MIT licensed projects. I'm not interested in the politics of
licensing, just the practical advantages and disadvantages. I also
don't want to start a flame war here on our peaceful mailing list.

FWIW, +1 for MIT/BSD-ish.
Andreas
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