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Yeah, I find the initial choice of license on V UI to be a bit weird. Not understanding the logic behind it, when the main and other parts are MIT, as a GPL UI
by Tozen 5y ago
Yeah, I find the initial choice of license on V UI to be a bit weird. Not understanding the logic behind it, when the main and other parts are MIT, as a GPL UI is a definite way to go down the road of massive headaches, drama, and confusion. GPL can give an unfriendly impression to those they probably could use help or support from.
It's still the early stages of the library and the language, so maybe it won't turn into some kind of mess. Possibly, they may have to do some rewrites of existing libraries. Still, it is a curious choice not to at least go LGPL, like many other projects have done who went down that GNU path. Seems like LGPL would have been the right balance to prevent sending mixed or "warning" signals.
There is also VIUP (https://github.com/kjlaw89/viup https://github.com/kjlaw89/viup), which is a port of IUP. So, it's not like more adventurous types can't go play with that. That's under the friendlier MIT license.