re. license, check out the history on the mailing-list for context, lots of previous discussions. I'm really swamped - as ever, new job - and don't have time to revisit the topic for a while, let alone code on Beancount. The problem with licensing is that it has a lot of ramifications and a lot of people have ideological commitments I'm simply not interested in. The bottom line is that I do want Beancount to remain something other people have to share improvements they make upon up, but am not opposed to the LGPL either. I used to know all the details intimately, but I'm a fair bit out of touch, and I honest I just don't have the cycles.
On Wed, Feb 2, 2022 at 2:43 PM Vishesh Handa <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > . > -- 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/CAK21%2BhMZnZ_HkXVvy9VJH2k2Ax0LXBJPfiwg3Yxk%3DtA_E1z-zQ%40mail.gmail.com.
