Ian Ward <[email protected]> writes:

> Tony Narlock has suggested switching the Urwid license to an MIT or
> BSD license. He's raised some issues with LGPL and the difficulty of
> interpreting it with a Python library like Urwid.
>
> https://github.com/wardi/urwid/issues/41
>
> I'm not opposed to the idea, but it will involve contacting quite a
> few contributors to get their permission. If some people don't give
> permission then we would have to consider if switching licenses was
> worth removing their work from Urwid. i.e. this is not fun or
> interesting work, but it might be good for the library.
>
> If you have relevant information for this discussion, please add it to
> the ticket above.
>
> I contribute code to proprietary commercial, AGPL, GPL, LGPL, and
> BSD/MIT licensed projects. I'm not interested in the politics of
> licensing, just the practical advantages and disadvantages. I also
> don't want to start a flame war here on our peaceful mailing list.

FWIW, +1 for MIT/BSD-ish.

Andreas

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