Licensing

[bglw]

Hi Lea! 🙂

Just a query on where the licensing will end up. Right now the project is labeled as MIT, but it looks like there are a range of incompatible licenses within, at least as far as is concerned. I don't know if that's an accurate summary of the distributed code, however.

What are the longer-term plans here?

[leaanthony]

Hi Liam, Thanks for raising this. A while back, it was one FOSSA flag that was an invalid match to an otf font. I raised this with FOSSA but they were reluctant to change it. So I kinda mentally switched off to the widget. It concerns me for sure and I'll look at removing or replacing license clashes. That being said, for a tool like this, it feels like a more restrictive license would benefit the project and include a clause that the templates and runtime are excempt. I want to do the right thing by everyone else and also myself. Am open to suggestions on how to achieve that. Cheers,

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-Lea.

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[bglw]

If you're looking for a similar license to benefit the project, I'm a fan of the MPL license. It's fairly similar to Apache/MIT licenses in the permitted usage, but it requires that any changes to the codebase are open-sourced. Unlike the GPL family, it doesn't affect any other files outside of Wails within a larger codebase.

I would also totally understand going for a more restrictive or commercial license from your end.