On 7/23/18 7:32 AM, Andrea Trentini wrote: > Hi, > I'm one of the mentors of GSoC project BootTorrent > (https://github.com/shreyanshk/boottorrent), > since we would like to pack 'opentracker' > (https://erdgeist.org/arts/software/opentracker/) into > BootTorrent but they differ in license (GPL vs. beerware) we'd like to > receive advice about the > compatibility of the two licenses: can a beerware product be included[1] into > a GPLed product? > I believe so but I'm not sure.
I seriously doubt that "beerware" is a valid software license and I really wish people would not find it funny to come up with their own licenses. However, that's probably not a serious problem, although ftp-masters swill have the final say on that. On the technical side: why do you want to package the two software together? It seems to be that they are useful independently. Thus, I would suggest to package opentracker and have the boottorrent package Depend on it. I don't know how tight the integration is, but ideally, the boottorrent package could only depend on a general tracker implementation and Suggest opentracker the way it is usually done for web servers or smtp servers. Cheers, Dan
