selfsigned should be GPL License

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selfsigned should be GPL License

liwenda122 opened this issue 3 years ago · 3 comments

liwenda122 commented 3 years ago

hi there, your repo must change to GPL License since you has a dependency "node-forge": "0.7.5", which is GPL License

Answer 1 · 2022-04-07T17:38:48.000Z

Good point:

https://github.com/digitalbazaar/forge/blob/main/LICENSE

Answer 2 · 2022-04-07T18:06:20.000Z

could we do BSD instead?

Answer 3 · 2022-04-29T20:04:28.000Z

I'm not a lawyer, but I don't believe you need to change your license at all.

You can be (and presumably are) using node-forge under the terms of the BSD license, which does not have the same "viral effect" that GPL does. I also believe that all of the attribution requirements are met by the fact that their license file will exist in their source in node_modules.

Though, again, IANAL. So this is definitely not legal advice. You may well wish to do your own research on the topic or speak to a qualified lawer.