Decide open-source license about stow

[sekchai2]

I vote for GNU gpl3 because we want it to be known the contribution and to distribute as widely as possible (with enhancements).

[jasonhancock]

If you want wide distribution, then any of the GNU licenses are off the table.

My vote is MIT or Apache 2.0

[matryer]

MIT is my favourite. Dead easy. No brainer for people.

On 20 Oct 2016, at 16:16, Jason Hancock [email protected] wrote:

If you want wide distribution, then any of the GNU licenses are off the table.

My vote is MIT or Apache 2.0

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[johnmotz]

SO we are between MIT and Apache... I would lean towards Apache and also have Steve on our legal side looking at it to weigh in as well...

Mat what is the downside of Apache?

[jasonhancock]

Both MIT and Apache are permissive licenses. The main difference is the Apache license includes an express grant of patent rights from contributors to users. If we were ever to patent anything relating to stow, that could be an important thing for stow users to have.

[piotrrojek]

@matryer do we have an agreement on the license yet?

[matryer]

Let's get Steve from legal to agree Apache license.

[johnmotz]

That was how I read it also, didn't see a downside.

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Both MIT and Apache are permissive licenses. The main difference is the Apache license includes an express grant of patent rights from contributors to users. If we were ever to patent anything relating to stow, that could be an important thing for stow users to have.

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[matryer]

Closing assuming the Apache license is good.