{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/bitmovin/bitmovin-player-ui/issues/84","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/bitmovin/bitmovin-player-ui","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/bitmovin/bitmovin-player-ui/issues/84/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/bitmovin/bitmovin-player-ui/issues/84/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/bitmovin/bitmovin-player-ui/issues/84/events","html_url":"https://github.com/bitmovin/bitmovin-player-ui/issues/84","id":294203251,"number":84,"title":"LGPL v3.0 - Why?","user":{"login":"kaizen1","id":16579459,"avatar_url":"https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/u/16579459?v=4","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/kaizen1","html_url":"https://github.com/kaizen1","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kaizen1/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kaizen1/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kaizen1/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kaizen1/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kaizen1/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kaizen1/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kaizen1/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kaizen1/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kaizen1/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"assignees":[],"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2018-02-04T14:59:24Z","updated_at":"2018-02-05T11:01:20Z","closed_at":null,"author_association":"NONE","body":"We do commercial software so LGPL v3.0 is banned in our company. We are only allowed to use MIT, Apache2.0, and BSD, or carefully considered commercial licenses (we're not against paying as long as we retain rights in what WE code, even when we use someone's API to do it). \r\n\r\nI understand that Bitmovin player is a for-fee player, but your use of LGPL v3 is a hairball nightmare for anyone who wants to sell their work. LGPL has very tricky legal requirements with \"code conveyance language\" (i.e. being forced to give away your code if you use the Linked Library), other tricky \"dynamic\" linking legalese, and public documentation requirements. It's simply a toxic license for most people in the commercial software world. \r\n\r\n-- Question: is there a link to a commercial license. BTW, a sloppy commercial license is no better and should carefully consider the property rights of BOTH parties, anything else is just another kind no-go hairball.\r\n\r\n-- Observation: you only have 35 stars after 1 year on Github. It may be related to licensing because it looks like you're doing some nice engineering work!\r\n\r\nThanks."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/bitmovin/bitmovin-player-ui/issues/comments/363051710","html_url":"https://github.com/bitmovin/bitmovin-player-ui/issues/84#issuecomment-363051710","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/bitmovin/bitmovin-player-ui/issues/84","id":363051710,"user":{"login":"protyposis","id":189372,"avatar_url":"https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/u/189372?v=4","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/protyposis","html_url":"https://github.com/protyposis","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/protyposis/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/protyposis/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/protyposis/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/protyposis/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/protyposis/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/protyposis/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/protyposis/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/protyposis/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/protyposis/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2018-02-05T11:01:20Z","updated_at":"2018-02-05T11:01:20Z","author_association":"CONTRIBUTOR","body":"Hi, thanks for bringing your concerns to our attention. We chose the LGPL over the GPL specifically so our customers would *not* have to apply this same license to their dependencies and give away their code; but had hoped that they'd contribute back their generic improvements to the UI framework (we are of course not interested in customer-specific customizations). \r\n\r\nWe are aware that the LGPL is problematic for some of our customers and we are currently in the process of considering a license change to MIT or BSD. Enterprise customers can of course also arrange custom licensing terms as an alternative to the project's default license.\r\n\r\nRegarding the stars: this library is an extension to our paid player product and does not target the general open source audience so I don't see a reason to worry about the count."}}
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