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* Ability to use stuff licensed under GPL 2 license in ZNC
* Ability to use stuff licensed under GPL 2 license in ZNC
** [http://www.atheme.net/iris.html Iris] or [http://qwebirc.org/ qwebirc]
** [http://www.atheme.net/iris.html Iris] or [http://qwebirc.org/ qwebirc]
*** But iris is loaded as separate process, and ZNC communicates with it via socket, so it's not an issue, according to [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLPluginsInNF this] and [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#MereAggregation this]
* Anything else?
* Anything else?



Revision as of 18:13, 16 December 2012

Switch ZNC from GPL 2 to another license

See https://github.com/znc/znc/issues/218

What we want?

  • Ability to use stuff licensed under Apache license in ZNC
  • Ability to use stuff licensed under GPL 2 license in ZNC
    • Iris or qwebirc
      • But iris is loaded as separate process, and ZNC communicates with it via socket, so it's not an issue, according to this and this
  • Anything else?

The list

GPL 3

Pros:

Cons:

  • Incompatible with GPLv2 and thus conflicts with "What we want": [1]

LGPL 3

Pros:

Cons:

  • ZNC is not a library

Apache 2.0

Pros:

Cons:

BSD (2 or 3-clause?)

Pros:

Cons:

MIT

Pros:

Cons:

Anything else?

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