MIT License?

[mgt16-LANL]

Hi @espottesmith , could we make this guy MIT license as well? I have a feeling it will make things a bit easier from my end if it's the same as the OCM stuff!

[espottesmith]

First of all, appreciate you raising this now, before there are other contributors. Changing later on down the line would be a nightmare.

Why does using MIT and having the OCM and this license be the same make things easier? My understanding was that we were treating this as a separate project - we're just using this for the OCP effort.

I'm a fan of GPL because it more or less prevents folks from selling the free software that I write/contribute to (which happens more often than you'd think, even in our space). In this particular case, I think a big selling point of this project is that it relies entirely on open source libraries and free software. That's really cool, and saying "but you can use it to make nonfree software" is less cool.

I don't want to make your life hard. If this is going to save you a lot of work and weeks of time, I could be amenable to moving towards a less restrictive, less copyleft license. But it's unclear to me at present if that is the case, or why it would be.

Maybe message me privately if you have more information on this point?