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Alternatives to GPL-2.0 license? · Issue #58 · pwaller/pyfiglet · GitHub

First off, I just wanted to say that I love that you've spent the time to port FIGlet to Python. This is a great project and I want to say thank you for creating it. But that's not why I've raised this issue... :-)

It turns out that many of your dependent projects/packages (https://github.com/pwaller/pyfiglet/network/dependents) are using pyfiglet, but are not redistributing under the terms of the GPL-2.0 license that you are using. My own package (https://github.com/peterbrittain/asciimatics) appears to have fallen foul of this.

I really want to continue to deploy my package under the terms of the Apache-2.0 license, which as I understand it means I have to follow one of the following options:

1. Remove/replace the use of your package
2. Convert all direct use of pyfiglet (via import) into separate process calls (via your command-line script).
3. Agree with you (as the copyright holders) a separate license for my project.
4. Persuade you to change your standard license to something that allows for this use case - e.g. LGPL-3.0.

Given how many other projects depend on this one (and are actually breaking the terms as I now understand them), I'd like to try to do the right thing here and explore options 3 and 4 with you before just diving into options 1 or 2.

So... Would you be willing to consider some other form of licensing like LGPL?

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