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The fact that we even have to have this discussion is a reason not to use it. I'd have to a hire a lawyer and disclose it to my investors to be cleared up. It w
by kavok 9y ago
The fact that we even have to have this discussion is a reason not to use it. I'd have to a hire a lawyer and disclose it to my investors to be cleared up. It would cost us money to validate because it does something different compared to any other similar project. My investors were very specific about software licenses - we aren't allowed to use GPLv4 or AGPL at all.
- chrisco255 9y agoIf that's your concern, then you should comb through the source code of all your open source libraries and be certain that none of it violates any of Facebook's patents, including the MIT licensed stuff, which may very well.
- Lazare 9y ago> I'd have to a hire a lawyer and disclose it to my investors to be cleared up That seems extremely weird. Normal startups do nothing of the kind; do you have extremely weird investors? > My investors were very specific about software licenses - we aren't allowed to use GPLv4 or AGPL at all. Ah, there we go. First off, there's no such thing as GPLv4. Second of all, you do realise that avoiding even the AGPL puts you in a vanishingly rare crowd in these parts, right? Eg, MongoDB is AGPL; of all the reasons I've seen given for avoiding Mongo, the license is a new one on me. If you've decided to only use GPLv2 or vanilla MIT licenses software that's totally fine, but it is unusual.
- kavok 9y agoSorry - meant GPLv3. All of the software we use is GPLv1/2, BSD, MIT, Apache etc..