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Licensing controversy #1

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pfalcon opened this issue Jun 10, 2013 · 2 comments
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Licensing controversy #1

pfalcon opened this issue Jun 10, 2013 · 2 comments

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@pfalcon
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pfalcon commented Jun 10, 2013

Hello, I was looking for Django module for Crowd auth, and found yours. However, I find licensing controversial. For example, https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-crowd says:

Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license
("THE VEGETARIAN-FOOD-WARE LICENSE" (Revision 2))

Well, Crowd is commercial package, so how do you imagine someone bother with it as a hobby? In my case, I would be doing it as part of my paid job, but result is open-source app for free. Is it "commercial"? One can guess.

In https://github.com/gbezyuk/django-crowd/blob/master/LICENSE.TXT, I don't see any "non-commercial" phrases, but it's not an officially recognized (http://opensource.org/) license either. By the spirit, it's rather similar to BSD or MIT license, so why don't you use just that and put food jokes into README?

All in all, I'd probably skip your package by now, but hope that possible changes may be useful for your software to find more users in the future. Thanks.

@NullSoldier
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Can you recommend a definitive license and we'll put up a PR? We should just copy pasta django's license. It's so short and reasonable. https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/LICENSE

@gbezyuk
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gbezyuk commented Nov 30, 2016

@NullSoldier I'm okay with django's license, if you ask.

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