[sword-devel] Script to find a best fit v11n

[Matěj Cepl]

On Mon Jun 30, 2025 at 3:32 PM CEST, Arnaud Vié wrote:
> It is quite uncommon for open source libraries to use GPL nowadays, as it's
> very restrictive by nature. GPL remains mostly for "complete" applications
> - libraries tend to rather use LGPL, Apache 2.0 or MIT license (depending
> on the level of protection they seek), to favour wide usability.

I was a friend with Lous Villa, so I would add MPL 2.0 to that
set. [1] And I would happily support the relicensing idea, plain
GPL is in my opinion a truly bad idea for the library. Any one of
the mentioned would be better.

> Of course, publishing under a new license can only be done by the current
> rights holder, which according to the libsword LICENSE is the "CrossWire
> Bible Society", as an organisation.
> Does Troy have the full power of decision on the topic ?

If would be probably prudent to ask people on
git shortlog -s -e|sort -h -r|head -n to approve.

Best,

Matěj

[1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/MPL/
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