Dear all, I just noticed, that the products which I would call beancount derivatives (e.g. fava <https://github.com/beancount/fava> or smart_importer <https://github.com/beancount/smart_importer>) are licensed with MIT license. However beancount itself is GPL-2.
I am not a legal person, but I am just wondering, shouldn't they also have to be GPL? I know there is always a question as to how much of the original beancount code is reused in them, but if you google for this subject then you get for instance such statement: https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/10180/how-much-of-my-code-becomes-gpl-if-i-use-some-gpl-code-and-how-different-does-my https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/338586/when-does-a-modification-of-gpl-code-stop-being-one *This is exactly why big companies who are developing code that is known to be vulnerable to lawsuits because there is an existing implementation to people could accuse you of copying (especially in cases where you'Re reverse engineering it) will do a clean room implementation <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design> by very explicitly prohibiting the developers to so much as look at the code they might be accused of copying.* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/85b2f2a7-2514-43ee-9ce6-f3fb13d445can%40googlegroups.com.
