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The main issue with bootstrap-material is that this project is afflicted by the dreaded "developer thinks he needs his own license" bug[0][1]. It's effectively

by skore 11y ago

The main issue with bootstrap-material is that this project is afflicted by the dreaded "developer thinks he needs his own license" bug[0][1]. It's effectively CC BY-SA-NC which is rather bold when you consider that it's adopting a design framework from Google for a css framework from Twitter. [0] https://github.com/FezVrasta/bootstrap-material-design/blob/master/LICENSE.md https://github.com/FezVrasta/bootstrap-material-design/blob/... [1] https://github.com/FezVrasta/bootstrap-material-design/search?q=license&type=Issues https://github.com/FezVrasta/bootstrap-material-design/searc...

hughstephens 11y ago
+1. Saw this earlier, thought "looks good, I should use it for a project", then read license and went "hahahahhaha no chance, not using a normal/standard licence is way too high risk for me, no matter the project".
- skore 11y ago
  If you follow the discussions on github, the latest consideration is to use AGPL. For a CSS library. But fear not! > There will be a commercial license as well. [0] Well, if he goes that far, perhaps Google or Twitter lawyers will finally put an end to this. [0] https://github.com/FezVrasta/bootstrap-material-design/issues/410#issuecomment-73026734 https://github.com/FezVrasta/bootstrap-material-design/issue...