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Change license to LGPL-3.0 with MIT-0 after 5 years #1

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josecelano opened this issue Oct 31, 2024 · 0 comments · Fixed by #3
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Change license to LGPL-3.0 with MIT-0 after 5 years #1

josecelano opened this issue Oct 31, 2024 · 0 comments · Fixed by #3
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In a meeting today, as proposed by @da2ce7 we decided to use the same license we are using in other crates like:

https://github.com/torrust/bencode2json

GPL vs LGPL

  • GPL: Full copyleft, requiring any combined work to be open source under GPL.
  • LGPL: Copyleft for the library itself, but allows linking to proprietary software, making it more flexible for library projects.

LGPL-2.1 vs LGPL-3.0

  • LGPL-3.0 is more protective (especially with patents and device restrictions) and compatible with newer licenses.
  • LGPL-2.1 may be preferable in projects that avoid LGPL-3.0 due to its Tivoization clause or if compatibility with GPL-2.0 is required.
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docs: [torrust#1] change license to LGPL-3.0
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Merge #3: Change license to LGPL-3.0
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d944eaf docs: [#1] change license to LGPL-3.0 (Jose Celano)

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  Change license to LGPL-3.0.

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