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I noticed this is GPLv3, which means if you use this library, all your application will have to be open source, however IANAL.
by ausjke 9y ago
I noticed this is GPLv3, which means if you use this library, all your application will have to be open source, however IANAL.
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- neuland 9y agoI was surprised that this wasn't LGPL, which seems more suited. Granted it's GNU. So, they're going to do it their way.
- chubot 9y ago"Using" doesn't require it to be open source. Only if you distribute the resulting binaries, which is basically the "SaaS loophole". If it were AGPL, then what you said would be more accurate.
- creatonez 9y agoThey have a page explaining their reasoning: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.en.html https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.en.html
- yellowapple 9y agoThe only reasoning they really need is "we wrote the GPL and we're gonna goddamn use it".