Question about license about egads

[ricardojlrufino]

I think the most appropriate would be LGPL

[ricardojlrufino]

Like: https://github.com/etheriau/OpenForecast , used by this

[manolama]

Let me check with our OSS team, maybe we can use Apache.

[gyehuda]

We were required to use GPL instead of a more permissive option because the project developers copied existing GPL code and pasted it into the project. Refactoring that code out of this project would allow us to relicense the code under more permissive terms (e.g. the Apache license). Let me know if you'll do this and I'll be glad to help with the details.

[cyrilou242]

Hey @gyehuda,
I'd be interested in knowing the GPL code files/parts necessary to rewrite/refactor out.

[manolama]

@cyrilou242
Looks like any file with a header starting with OpenForecast - open source, general-purpose forecasting package may have some GPL'd bits from OpenForecast that were pulled in. And it may just be the models in https://github.com/yahoo/egads/tree/master/src/main/java/com/yahoo/egads/models/tsmm. Refactoring all of that would clean up the license.

[cyrilou242]

thanks @manolama I'll have a look and try to estimate the work needed