Hello I've noticed that one of the Goals with Beancount v3 is compatibility with other languages, by using protobufs. This is great, however, are there any plans to move away from a *GPL license?
I've been meaning to make a proper mobile front-end for Beancount, which would be integrated with Git, based on the code from another project of mine [1]. However, given that I want to ship this in iOS where GPL licenses can be problematic [2] [3], I wouldn't want to take the risk, even if Martin and all publicly state that it's fine. So far, I've been reimplementing the subset of Beancount v2 format that I use in Dart but this comes into the question of the API being copyrightable. At some point, maybe I'll need to explicitly not support the beancount format to not infringe on the license. So, is there any chance we could change the license? I checked and the "new core" part of Beancount with the protobufs only has Martin as a contributor, so that part should be straightforward, and that way I can easily test my parser by making it generate the same protobufs. -- Vishesh Handa [1] https://gitjournal.io [2] https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/9500/is-apple-allowed-to-distribute-gplv3-licensed-software-through-its-ios-app-store [3] https://www.zdnet.com/article/no-gpl-apps-for-apples-app-store/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAOPTMKAo8t1X0FKi18ktmaKtYV8w4Xzikn48efXjOm_pYGEpvA%40mail.gmail.com.
