Consider dual-licensing?

[lilith]

The Ms-Pl is incompatible with many free software licenses, as it imposes a unique restriction:

(D) If you distribute any portion of the software in source code form, you may do so only under this license by including a complete copy of this license with your distribution. [...]

Many OSI-approved copyleft licenses require that linking or interacting code must be licensed in a manner that does not further restrict user rights. This conflicts with the Ms-Pl, as it specifically prohibits the right to re-license.

There are many GPL, LGPL, and AGPL-licensed libraries, yet we cannot legally combine these with FAKE due to the terms of the Ms-Pl.

Dual-licensing under Apache 2 or MIT would resolve the problem. As GitHub notifies people who are mentioned, re-licensing would involve pasting the list of contributors into this thread and asking for a release of their copyright. Getting approval can take anywhere from a few days to several months, depending upon contributor awareness.

Thoughts?

[forki]

I think that's OK. Please send pull request which solves this.
On Nov 24, 2014 7:15 PM, "Nathanael Jones" [email protected] wrote:

The Ms-Pl is incompatible with many free software licenses, as it imposes
a unique restriction:

(D) If you distribute any portion of the software in source code form, you
may do so only under this license by including a complete copy of this
license with your distribution. [...]

Many OSI-approved copyleft licenses require that linking or interacting
code must be licensed in a manner that does not further restrict user
rights. This conflicts with the Ms-Pl, as it specifically prohibits the
right to re-license.

There are many GPL, LGPL, and AGPL-licensed libraries, yet we cannot
legally combine these with FAKE due to the terms of the Ms-Pl.

Dual-licensing under Apache 2 or MIT would resolve the problem. As GitHub
notifies people who are mentioned, re-licensing would involve pasting the
list of contributors into this thread and asking for a release of their
copyright. Getting approval can take anywhere from a few days to several
months, depending upon contributor awareness.

Thoughts?

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#597.

[lilith]

Pull request here: #598

If it looks good, I've set up a sign-off checklist for contributors here: https://gist.github.com/nathanaeljones/052465e2af5894867bb0