Comment 9 for bug 1797095
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| Wayne Stambaugh (stambaughw) wrote Re: [Bug 1797095] Re: KiCad is licensed AGPL-3.0 due to included TTL library | #9 |
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Orson,
I don't think removing it is necessary. We just need to be more aware
of licensing and let the dev team know what is going on so everyone is
aware of any potential licensing issues. I doubt there are any
objections but I don't want to get blindsided when some dev decides to
drop their support because they disagree with the AGPL. In the mean
time, we will have to update our license statement to include the AGPL
due to TTL.
Cheers,
Wayne
On 10/22/2018 6:19 AM, Maciej Suminski wrote:
> Wayne,
>
> As Seth correctly noticed, it was me who added TTL. Since 2013 the
> library has been used for the ratsnest algorithm. I figured it would not
> constitute a problem since AGPL is compatible with GPL, but it is right
> that AGPL is more strict than GPL.
>
> What do you say? Shall we look for an alternative or can we keep TTL?
> IMHO, AGPL is not a bad thing - I doubt anyone is going to run KiCad as
> a server, but it does not harm the project.
>