{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mleise/fast/issues/2","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mleise/fast/issues/2/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mleise/fast/issues/2/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mleise/fast/issues/2/events","html_url":"https://github.com/mleise/fast/issues/2","id":111677683,"number":2,"title":"Consider Boost License","user":{"login":"Downchuck","id":141466,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/141466?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/Downchuck","html_url":"https://github.com/Downchuck","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Downchuck/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Downchuck/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Downchuck/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Downchuck/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Downchuck/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Downchuck/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Downchuck/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Downchuck/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Downchuck/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"closed","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":3,"created_at":"2015-10-15T18:24:14Z","updated_at":"2015-10-17T18:19:08Z","closed_at":"2015-10-17T18:19:08Z","body":"Many D-language projects are licensed with the Boost license. fast is currently under a GPL3.0 license which would require any user of the project also license their project under GPL3.0.\r\n\r\nThis consideration came up via the announcement thread on the dlang forums: \r\nhttp://forum.dlang.org/thread/20151014090114.60780ad6@marco-toshiba?page=2\r\n\r\n"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mleise/fast/issues/comments/148939077","html_url":"https://github.com/mleise/fast/issues/2#issuecomment-148939077","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mleise/fast/issues/2","id":148939077,"user":{"login":"Downchuck","id":141466,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/141466?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/Downchuck","html_url":"https://github.com/Downchuck","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Downchuck/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Downchuck/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Downchuck/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Downchuck/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Downchuck/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Downchuck/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Downchuck/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Downchuck/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Downchuck/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-10-17T18:19:08Z","updated_at":"2015-10-17T18:19:08Z","body":"@mleise I think that last part \"commercial projects\" is the catch - it sounds like you are firm on the GPL3 license.  D and its standard libraries are available under Boost license, which allows for commercial entities to compile the code without carrying license restrictions.\r\n\r\nI'll go ahead and close out this issue."}}