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What license is pwnat under? #16

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dstorrs opened this issue Apr 2, 2020 · 4 comments
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What license is pwnat under? #16

dstorrs opened this issue Apr 2, 2020 · 4 comments

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dstorrs commented Apr 2, 2020

I'd like to use this as an external library for some Racket code I'm writing. What license are you using so that I can be sure to comply?

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dstorrs commented Apr 3, 2020

Sidebar: MIT would be really nice, since I'm working on a commercial project.
https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT

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dstorrs commented Apr 3, 2020

Aaand, no sooner do I write the above second comment than I noticed the 'COPYING-pingtunnel' file, which does in fact have a license in it: GPL. I had been expecting a file named 'LICENSE' and had not yet gone through each file in turn.

I run a small, 2-person startup. GPL means that I can't safely use this code as an element of our software, even as a library, since I can't afford to spend money on lawyers to tell me exactly what I can and can't do, and I can't afford to take a chance on the EFF or GNU organization suing me as part of their "enforce the license so others don't abuse it" efforts. (Unlikely that they would go after a small startup, but I can't take the risk and the risk would grow if we became successful.)

Is there any chance that I could get a version for our use that is under a different license?

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r-lyeh commented Apr 3, 2020

Code could use MIT-0 instead (https://github.com/aws/mit-0) and docs could use CC0 <3

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samyk commented Apr 3, 2020

pwnat uses code from a 3rd party project (udptunnel), so that license is not from me but rather the 3rd party project.

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