[Buildbot-devel] Fwd: AutobahnPython 0.10.0 release - now MIT licensed!

[Dustin J. Mitchell]

Woo, this is great!  Dealing with incompatible licenses can be
frustrating, but it's worthwhile for all of our users relying on us to
ship a legitimately licensed product.

Dustin

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Pierre Tardy <tardyp at gmail.com> wrote:
> \o/
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Tobias Oberstein <tobias.oberstein at gmail.com>
> Date: Thu Feb 19 2015 at 19:44:22
> Subject: AutobahnPython 0.10.0 release - now MIT licensed!
> To: <autobahnws at googlegroups.com>
> Cc: pierre Tardy <tardyp at gmail.com>
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am happy to announce AutobahnPython 0.10.0
>
> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/autobahn/0.10.0
>
> The biggest thing: we changed the license from Apache 2.0 to MIT.
>
> Note: Yes, we did contact and got acknowledge from all contributors.
> Thanks to all!
>
> Why?
>
> The Apache 2.0 license is very liberal already. It is compatible with
> commercial closed source as well as GPL 3.0, but it is NOT compatible
> with GPL 2.0. The MIT license is.
>
> So if you have a GPL 2.0 code base: you now can use AutobahnPython;)
>
> The trigger actually was: Buildbot is _considering_ using WAMP,
> AutobahnPython and Crossbar.io.
>
> Buildbot (http://buildbot.net/) is a build automation and continuous
> integration system widely used - and we would be very happy if they
> chose a WAMP tech stack obviously;)
>
> Big thanks to Pierre (Buildbot & Intel) to organize the license change!
>
> And for pressing me to go PEP8;) A change we did already in 0.9.6.
>
> Cheers,
> /Tobias
>
> PS:
>
> AutobahnJS is MIT already. We will switch AutobahnCpp and
> AutobahnAndroid to MIT also.
>
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