Can MIT license be used instead of GPL?

[sharkov63]

GPL is too strict of a license for some purposes: many companies disallow using any GPL open-source libraries. I would like to create in the future a derived project, and I would like to use MIT license for it. But GPL does not allow to do such thing (I would have to use GPL). Is there any possibility for xkb-switch to switch to a less strict license?

[grwlf]

I see no reasons to stick to GPL any more in this project, so I can update the license. @sharkov63 is it still interesting for you?

[sharkov63]

I see no reasons to stick to GPL any more in this project, so I can update the license. @sharkov63 is it still interesting for you?

Yes very much, it would be great if you update to MIT 👍🏻

[grwlf]

Should be changed now, please check.

[sharkov63]

Thank you! Although as a nitpick, there is still GPL heading text in all sources and headers, for example

xkb-switch/src/XKbSwitchApi.cpp

Lines 7 to 10 in f829234

	* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
	* under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
	* Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option)
	* any later version.

I think we can remove it

[grwlf]

Done, thanks.

[sharkov63]

Thank you very much! 👍🏻