Timeline for What to do when using MIT-licensed code in a GPL-licensed project?
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| Aug 6, 2021 at 16:47 | comment | added | zumalifeguard | It's disappointing to have such comments from Robert Harvey and Bryan Oakley. No one is looking for a philosophical opinion here, however misinformed. These licenses are for law. The only worthwhile opinions is whether it's legal or not, and how to do things legally. The copyright holder intentionally selected a license so that others will use as per the license -- your disapproval only clouds the issue. | |
| Dec 16, 2017 at 17:04 | comment | added | Avamander | GPL is about user freedoms, MIT is about developer freedoms. It's demagogy to claim one is absolutely more restrictive than another without specifying the part where it is more restrictive and to whom. | |
| May 23, 2017 at 12:40 | history | edited | CommunityBot | replaced http://stackoverflow.com/ with https://stackoverflow.com/ | |
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| Jan 15, 2017 at 11:57 | comment | added | Killah | @BryanOakley you completely miss the point of GPL. If I make something open source I don't want someone using it in a proprietary solution and restricting users from doing whatever they want with the software. | |
| Apr 21, 2016 at 18:33 | comment | added | Bryan Oakley | @DocBrown: it's also like saying "here's a gift. Where's mine?". Altruism shouldn't come with restrictions IMHO. <shrug> | |
| Apr 21, 2016 at 18:28 | comment | added | Doc Brown | @BryanOakley: the reasoning behind this is "if I give you my code, you give my yours". | |
| Apr 21, 2016 at 15:52 | comment | added | RPiAwesomeness | @DavidArno I can see why that's annoying, but from what I understand that code is still licensed under MIT, it's just my code that's licensed under GPL. | |
| Apr 21, 2016 at 15:44 | comment | added | Bryan Oakley | @DavidArno: hah, yeah. I don't understand the whole "I want my code to be open, but I want to restrict how you use it" mentality. "Either make it open or don't" is how I look at it. The vast, vast, vast majority of code isn't worth protecting anyway, so I don't understand why so much energy is putting toward protecting it. | |
| Apr 21, 2016 at 15:35 | comment | added | David Arno | @BryanOakley, completely agree regarding getting rich off it. Good for them. I just get irritated with the idea of someone taking a open piece of software and wrapping it up in a restrictive GLP solution. It doesn't irritate me enough to stop using it though. :) | |
| Apr 21, 2016 at 15:27 | comment | added | Bryan Oakley | @DavidArno: to me, free is free. When I use MIT, you're welcome to use my code however you want, including using it with GPL code. And if you get rich off of my code, I'll simply applaud your success. | |
| Apr 21, 2016 at 15:26 | comment | added | Bryan Oakley | One choice might be to license your code under MIT, which would simplify everything. Do you really need to protect your code with a restrictive license? And if you feel strongly about the goals of GPL, why are you using non-GPL code in your project? | |
| Apr 21, 2016 at 15:25 | comment | added | David Arno | @RobertHarvey, It's the one disappointment I have with the MIT license. I'd love a version that lets people do whatever they want with my OS code, save use it in a GPL'ed project, but I've never found one. | |
| Apr 21, 2016 at 14:48 | comment | added | Robert Harvey | Oh, the irony of using the most restrictive possible copyleft license, while appropriating code from one of the least restrictive. | |
| Apr 21, 2016 at 14:18 | comment | added | Doc Brown | Maybe a duplicate: programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/204410/… | |
| Apr 21, 2016 at 14:14 | answer | added | Doc Brown | timeline score: 9 | |
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| Apr 21, 2016 at 13:10 | history | asked | RPiAwesomeness | CC BY-SA 3.0 |