Suggestion for LGPL license
ambroisemaupate opened this issue · 3 comments
We bundled SLIR with a dependency tool such as Composer to be run behind a front-controller. In that case, GPL license become too tight because it does not allow a website to be release under MIT or proprietary licenses.
I’m asking if you are OK to switch your Licence to LGPL at least or MIT at best?
It will allow non-GPL third party projects to be bundled as described here: https://github.com/rezozero/slir/blob/master/README.md#setting-up-as-a-library-in-a-symfony-like-environment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Lesser_General_Public_License
Send me a pull request that changes it to MIT, and I'll be happy to merge it.
Thanks for your approval, I'll do it very soon!
The problem is that I have to get rid of copying Exif feature as the Pel library you are using is licensed under GPL too. I think I will just update COPYING file and license headers for your pull request and I will remove Pel dependency from my own fork.
It might be worth a shot suggesting that PEL change to a similar license. It looks like they changed from LGPL to GPL 8 years ago: pel/pel@6be0ee3