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License change request #706
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MIT ➕ |
I also prefer MIT-0 license. |
+1, MIT or Apache 2.0 would be great. Great project and thanks for contributing to the open source community. We'd really like to use this project in NATS.io but it doesn't seem like we can due to the current license. More here: https://opensource.org/node/878 CC @scottf |
If Public Domain is not liberal enough for you, I recommend that you do not use it. |
Closing this issue due to a provided authoritative answer. |
@douglascrockford It's not that it's not liberal enough for us, it's the fact that public domain is not a license and is interpreted differently in different countries which can make it incompatible with opensource projects. The lawyers just don't want to deal with it. |
Coders arguing about international intellectual property law: ridiculous. The facts are that it is absolutely free and I gave up claim of ownership. You are of course entitled to believe all of the non-facts that you like. |
Not to beat a dead horse... but ok I will. I believe they are just looking for something more "formal" to satiate corporate lawyers. I believe a license like this matches what your intent is @douglascrockford . |
@douglascrockford
The license was changed to "Public Domain" in PR #688. However, the meaning of "public domain" is a bit ambiguous (e.g. "public domain" is not defined in the law of Japan.)
So users can't judge whether they can use JSON-java or not. I guess that it opposes your intention.
To resolve this problem, could you change the license to 0BSD or MIT-0? Or could you agree to change the license to one of two licenses?
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