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Board Armory
Re: Moving forward with Armory
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Carlton Banks
on 05/02/2016, 14:20:14 UTC
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I am certainly no expert on copyright law and licenses, but a sound engineering principle is KISS ("Keep It Simple, Stupid").  I can certainly understand that you prefer MIT license over GNU Affero for your own work (I agree with you here), but you should seriously consider if the extra complication of having to keep track of two different licenses is worth the trouble.  In particular, once you start refactor code you will constantly have to worry about not moving code from an Affero file to an MIT file.  Furthermore, the GNU licenses tends to affect the whole work, so the entire Armory will be under that license, even if people can reuse parts of the project that you alone wrote under MIT license.

Read above. I appreciate KISS but I AGPL has to go and I don't want to rewrite everything from the ground up. Phasing out the old code will be a long term effort along the course of at least 2016.
I can certainly see your point.  I doubt that you will ever end with an Armory without AGPL stuff in it, but the new stuff you write will be easier to integrate into other projects with an MIT license.

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I have Alan's verbal consent.
"A verbal agreement is not worth the paper it is written on."  Grin

Get a GPG signed email from him.  He seems to be a very trustworthy guy, but still things may change or come out of his control.


Alan announced the agreement publicly (in this sub), I think that's adequate