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More permissive license

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I have imported the spectral package into my code because it works great and is easy to use. It is a processing script of hyperspectral data, which I want to provide as open-source software here on GitHub. I want to provide it with a very permissive license, meaning MIT or BSD-3-Clause. With the GNU GPL2 licensed spectral package as import, this is not possible as far as I see it.

Can you please a) change the license of spectral to a more permissive license such as MIT or BSD-3-Clause, or b) give me permission to use your spectral package in my repository?

If not, please let me know. I think this is important information for every user of your package.

Thank you very much in advance!

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  • State:closed
  • Created 3 years ago
  • Comments:11 (11 by maintainers)

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tboggscommented, Apr 13, 2020

Dual-licensing is probably overkill here. I don’t see patent protection being a major issue so the MIT license should be fine. Thanks for the quick reply.

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lewismccommented, Apr 23, 2020

@tboggs I’ll try to get to this tomorrow yes. Thanks

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