Timeline for Can you use a less restrictive open source licence from the one your depedency has?
Current License: CC BY-SA 4.0
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| Sep 6, 2020 at 7:08 | comment | added | Bart van Ingen Schenau | @bdsl, yes, but complying with a license does not imply that you use the same license. This holds especially for permissive licenses. | |
| Sep 5, 2020 at 17:45 | comment | added | bdsl | If you write your own code specifically to fit the API offered by Package X, doesn't that make it a derivative work, meaning you'd have to comply with the package X license to distribute it? | |
| Aug 18, 2020 at 11:13 | comment | added | Bart van Ingen Schenau | Yes, you can have your project under the MIT license while using an Apache 2.0 dependency. Only when distributing a binary containing both, you need to have the appropriate license notices and the additional attribution notices required by the Apache dependency. | |
| Aug 18, 2020 at 10:48 | comment | added | user20241 | You mean that you can use an Apache License 2.0 library and have your project under MIT? Isn't the other way around only possible? | |
| Aug 18, 2020 at 10:44 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
| Aug 18, 2020 at 10:18 | history | answered | Bart van Ingen Schenau | CC BY-SA 4.0 |