license

[Peter Karman]

Greets,

I've been looking over https://github.com/Sereal/Sereal but there is no LICENSE file or other indication I can find at a high-level of the license for the code.

http://blog.booking.com/sereal-a-binary-data-serialization-format.html mentions Artistic and GPL (same terms as Perl).

I think it would be helpful to declare the license very visibly up top, and to specify which version of the license(s) you are using. Specifically, Artistic 2.0 is more friendly with copyleft licenses like Apache, MIT, BSD, etc.

I know many open source developers don't care about licensing stuff, and I used to be one of them, but things like this can make a difference for other projects adopting your code. I work with Apache Lucy and would like to experiment with Sereal; GPL and Apache don't play well though, so it's a non-starter based on licensing.

Thanks for the consideration.

[Peter Karman]

On Thursday, July 17, 2014 12:10:59 PM UTC-4, Peter Karman wrote:

I think it would be helpful to declare the license very visibly up top, and to specify which version of the license(s) you are using. Specifically, Artistic 2.0 is more friendly with copyleft licenses like Apache, MIT, BSD, etc.

I should correct that statement to say:

 Artistic 2.0 is more friendly with non-copyleft licenses like Apache, MIT, BSD, etc.

IANAL (thankfully, for all concerned).

pek