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Dual license as Apache v2 and MIT #2018

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Describe the feature

Distribute the C++ SDK under two liberal licenses.

Use Case

s3fs is licensed as a GPLv2 or later program. GPLv2 is not compatible with Apache v2 and thus the license effectively upgrades to GPLv3 or later.

Proposed Solution

Dual license the SDK like Rust does:

https://www.rust-lang.org/policies/licenses

Other Information

Some discussion about Apache and GPL licenses:

https://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html

Further StackOverflow discussion which states and incompatibility with GPLv2:

https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/1357/can-i-link-a-apache-2-0-library-into-software-under-gplv2

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  • This feature might incur a breaking change

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