{"action":"closed","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/bayespy/bayespy/issues/16","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/bayespy/bayespy/issues/16/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/bayespy/bayespy/issues/16/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/bayespy/bayespy/issues/16/events","html_url":"https://github.com/bayespy/bayespy/issues/16","id":83391839,"number":16,"title":"Switch license from GPL to MIT?","user":{"login":"jluttine","id":2195834,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2195834?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/jluttine","html_url":"https://github.com/jluttine","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jluttine/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jluttine/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jluttine/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jluttine/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jluttine/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jluttine/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jluttine/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jluttine/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jluttine/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"closed","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":4,"created_at":"2015-06-01T08:47:51Z","updated_at":"2015-06-02T14:55:51Z","closed_at":"2015-06-02T14:55:51Z","body":"I am considering switching the license from GPLv3 to MIT. \r\n\r\n\"the most important two predictors of success for a software project are the number of users and the number of contributors. Because of the restrictions and subtle legal issues involved with GPL licenses, many for-profit companies will not touch GPL-licensed code, even if they are happy to contribute their changes back to the community. A BSD license, on the other hand, removes these restrictions: Hunter mentions several specific examples of vital industry partnership in the case of matplotlib. He argues that in general, a good BSD-licensed project will, by virtue of opening itself to the contribution of private companies, greatly grow its two greatest assets: its user-base and its developer-base.\"\r\n\r\nFor more detailed arguments, see:\r\nhttps://web.stanford.edu/~vcs/talks/VictoriaStoddenIPSC2010.pdf\r\nwww.astrobetter.com/blog/2014/03/10/the-whys-and-hows-of-licensing-scientific-code/\r\n\r\nIf anyone wants to comment on this, please do so quickly, because I'm planning to switch the license this week."}}