Change the License for static linking about gst-plugin-rs HOT 10 CLOSED

Sure, you can change it.

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MIT or BSD sounds ideal, most other Rust projects seem to do MIT / Apache but I'm not seeing the point in having Apache there as it only adds restrictions on top of MIT.

Guile is GPL with linking exception, no? That's basically LGPL then. Or can you link to a license text for clarification? Main problem with this approach is that it's a "new" license, not a well known one.

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I also prefer MIT.

No need to discuss the Guile license if we agree on MIT. I think that explicit exceptions aren't that good because it requires people reading the license text instead of automatically knowing by looking at the license name.

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Apache2 has stricter terms but includes a patent grant / retaliation clause, which is nice. So going with MIT and that makes sense, either you get just the code, or you get more restrictions but patent grant

Apache2 only makes no sense due to (L)GPL 2 incompatibilities (v3 is fine).

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Basically, AFAIU, it requires everybody contributing code, do also give you the right to use their patents involving that code. Which might not be nice for some people, but I think it makes sense. AFAIU it does not apply to any code you built upon unless you also distribute it under the terms of the Apache2 license, which you don't have to.

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It does make sense.

But I am wondering if companies would be scared of Apache2, because of the risk of patent leaks.

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Android is Apache2, so companies apparently don't worry. It's also not requiring that modifications to the existing code are to be released under the same license, only that the original code must be.

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I'm fine with the Apache2/MIT solution. It removes all fears.

Unfortunately it means changes on-top of the shared code don't have to be contributed back, but that is a worthy sacrifice.

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Great, so we only need @suhr to agree for completeness (see #6)

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@sdroege if you want I can send you a pull request that changes the COPYING file to be the Apache2 license, plus the header of all the .rs/.c files.

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