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points by antman 1 day ago | 0 comments

License of GPUI is Apache and BlenderUI is GPL, which is limiting for adoption.

GPL is the best opensource license. But seeing this as a library, it might need to be LGPL rather than pure GPL (ala, you can use it as a library without "tainting" your source, but if you make modifications to the library, you must release it).

[–] ppmpreetham 1 day ago

Hello, creator here.

I don't think we can use LGPL since we were derived from Blender's Source code, which is GPL.

[–] chii 1 day ago

ah you're absolutely right; hadn't considered that!

[–] solyin 1 day ago

AGPL if you wanna be serious about it.

[–] chii 1 day ago

May be, but AGPL is intended for server based apps, rather than local apps (which i presume this library is intended, but i suppose the javascript part can be considered to fall into the server category).

[–] the__alchemist 1 day ago

Missed this - this is a deal breaker for many (most?) potential applications. GPL is fine for applications like Blender, but is limiting for libs.