On Fri, Mar 22 2024 at 02:44:33 PM +01:00:00, Kevin Kofler via devel
<devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Once concern I have with this is the use of LGPL 3.0 *only*. This
will not
be compatible with a GPL 4 or newer. (The upgrade clause in the
LGPLv2 that
allowed that was unfortunately dropped in the LGPLv3, now you have to
put
the "or later" clause on the LGPLed code to be compatible with newer
GPL
versions.)
So I'm not an expert on redis, but it's primarily accessed via sockets,
so the license doesn't actually matter for most users. I expect it will
probably be fine regardless of the choice of license (as long as it
doesn't go crazy and use AGPL).
But redis also has "modules" and I'm not familiar with them. The
modules were switched back to BSD-3-Clause yesterday after I complained
to Neal and then Neal complained to Drew:
https://codeberg.org/redict/redict/commit/d47ce2f24063728c09c3449e5deef3eddb9eceec
But I'm not sure how much that really achieves. If the modules also
link to LGPL-3.0-only code, then that probably accomplishes nothing.
I agree that most GPL or LPGL projects won't be willing to touch
anything that uses an -only license rather than an -or-later license
because the risk of not being able to "upgrade" the license in the
future is extreme and prohibitive. And of course permissively-licensed
projects will not touch anything that uses LGPL-3.0-only or
LGPL-3.0-or-later anyway. But as long as there is the IPC/socket
boundary in the middle, most programs should be fine. I wonder about
these modules, though....
Michael
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