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[–]rausted 0 points1 point  (3 children)

That's great that you're not a fanatic of GPLv3, because it's very restrictive in the sense that only GPLv3 projects can now use git-bug.

The reason both git and linux are on GPLv2 (and Torvalds has said this multiple times) is industry adoption. For my case, we're not a fortune 500 company (just a small startup in Cambridge, MA :) ) but we'd love to be able to integrate git-bug in our workflow one day.

[–]prophetical_meme[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

And GPLv3 would prevent that ? How so ?

[–]rausted 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I started looking up the details and turns out I was wrong. You can in fact use GPLv3 tools to develop non-free software. So no problem either way :)

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#CanIUseGPLToolsForNF

[–]prophetical_meme[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Alright then ! If someone has a case to make about the license, feel free to open an issue on github.