{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/zardus/idalink/issues/7","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/zardus/idalink/issues/7/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/zardus/idalink/issues/7/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/zardus/idalink/issues/7/events","html_url":"https://github.com/zardus/idalink/issues/7","id":53843057,"number":7,"title":"License is too restrictive","user":{"login":"cao","id":4066561,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4066561?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/cao","html_url":"https://github.com/cao","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cao/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cao/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cao/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cao/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cao/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cao/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cao/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cao/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cao/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":1,"created_at":"2015-01-09T08:04:11Z","updated_at":"2015-01-09T17:10:41Z","closed_at":null,"body":"The current license, GPLv3, is too restrictive for widespread adoption.\r\n\r\nA move to a less restrictive license, so that others can incorporate idalink more easily into proprietary software and then improve idalink naturally instead of being forced to GPL-license it or not use idalink at all might be a good idea. Under the current GPLv3 license, many of the companies that use IDA (which clearly is a requirement) might not be using idalink because they cannot easily distribute it as part of their own proprietary software. A too restrictive license can be cause for software not being adopted (https://github.com/carmaa/inception/pull/105). We should preemptively improve on this situation.\r\n\r\nI'd love to see idalink move to BSD (or MIT), or at least LGPL."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/zardus/idalink/issues/comments/69365169","html_url":"https://github.com/zardus/idalink/issues/7#issuecomment-69365169","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/zardus/idalink/issues/7","id":69365169,"user":{"login":"zardus","id":3453847,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3453847?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/zardus","html_url":"https://github.com/zardus","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zardus/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zardus/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zardus/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zardus/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zardus/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zardus/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zardus/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zardus/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zardus/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-01-09T17:10:41Z","updated_at":"2015-01-09T17:10:41Z","body":"LGPL probably makes sense. I'm hesitant to go less restrictive -- if they want to use it, they can contribute back. I'll look into relicensing; I'm guessing just a change of the LICENSE file and an explanatory commit message should do it.\r\n\r\nIn general, the idea that this thing is going to get widespread adoption under any circumstances is rather wild :-)"}}