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I use MIT (compared to GPL) because it's a low-maintenance library. When I have published stuff in GPL, I would have had someone from (say) the Netherlands ope
by otikik 7y ago
I use MIT (compared to GPL) because it's a low-maintenance library.
When I have published stuff in GPL, I would have had someone from (say) the Netherlands opening an issue asking "hey, can I use this library for doing so-and-so?". And I had to go and check so-and-so and check the again library and re-read the license and after I was not sure because I am not a lawyer and GPL text is fairly dense. Even if I was a lawyer, I would not be familiar with the legal requirements for someone from Netherlands.
One of the reasons I spend my free time doing open source is that I have fun. Reading legal text is the opposite of fun to me. So I moved to MIT. I did not have more of those legal questions.
- zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 7y agoThere is a really easy answer to that question: If you are unsure, hire a lawyer in your jurisdiction. The fact that you wrote some Free Software does not obligate you to help people with integrating it into their software for free, and that includes any kind of legal work required.
- atq2119 7y agoYou are under no obligation to answer those legal questions. In fact, you probably shouldn't. Just tell them politely that the GPL is available for them to read and well documented, and to ask their lawyer if it's really important to them.