Hi! Author here. The situation is slightly more complex than what you describe. Pijul was announced on the darcs blog, not by its authors, way before it was rea

Hi! Author here. The situation is slightly more complex than what you describe. Pijul was announced on the darcs blog, not by its authors, way before it was ready (about a year before). We had not really chosen a license back then, so we made the most conservative and protective choice available, and agreed to think again whenever we would have time. Now that we've started to use Pijul for the website (about two weeks ago), we want to change the license. I'm slightly annoyed by all the political statements in GPL3, AGPL3 and several versions of LGPL, such as "you cannot use this on impure devices", or "you cannot use this on platforms with poor support for shared libraries such as windows or mac os" (by which I mean that these platforms don't have real package managers to handle dependencies, and the end user has to either (1) install DLLs manually or (2) install "unshared shared libraries", i.e. one full instance of the library per program using it, which OSX calls an "app"). I am not a lawyer, but GPL2 seems to be free of these. We're not likely to pick anything much more permissive for now. Also, the Pijul and Darcs teams agree that we don't particularly enjoy discussions about licenses, especially when they're not based on factual arguments. Here are answers we've already given: - If you think that "a new anarchistic jurisdiction not recognizing any copyright law will soon emerge, hence Pijul should be in the public domain", we don't agree. The movie Dunyayi Kurtaran Adam, also known as Turkish Star Wars, is available full-length on youtube, to remind everyone that copyright laws may be broken, but not totally useless. Therefore, your dream country may not "emerge" that soon. - Or maybe you think "I'd like to make a living from selling a small wiki based on Pijul, leveraging not only your research ideas, but also the database backend you spent 6 months full-time writing, as well as you SSH library. Why would you not allow me to do that?". The answer is: because if your wiki is useful, we want to use it too, without having to pay! What sense of fairness is this?