What LICENSE should we use?

[ErichDonGubler]

[ricochet1k]

I'm fine with pretty much whatever. I'm not expecting to ever make money on it. I definitely don't want to inhibit people from making money off of games they build using this project, for example. Maybe a simple attribution license?

[ErichDonGubler]

So, after doing some research, IANAL, but I think a dual MIT/Apache license would be best; here's why:

• One limiting factor to consider is licenses that we may be held accountable for because we're using them as dependencies.

  Here's a copy of our current dependencies (transitive included) and their licenses:

  Apache-2.0 (6): gl, gl_generator, gl_generator, glutin, khronos_api, winit
  Apache-2.0/MIT (40): bitflags, bitflags, bytes, cc, cfg-if, cgl, cmake, cocoa, core-foundation, core-foundation-sys, core-graphics, foreign-types, foreign-types-shared, futures, gleam, iovec, lazy_static, lazy_static, lazycell, libc, libz-sys, log, log, memmap, miow, net2, num-traits, percent-encoding, pkg-config, rand, scoped-tls, shared_library, tempfile, tokio-core, tokio-io, tokio-timer, vcpkg, winapi, winapi-i686-pc-windows-gnu, winapi-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu
  BSD-3-Clause (4): fuchsia-zircon, fuchsia-zircon, fuchsia-zircon-sys, fuchsia-zircon-sys
  CC0-1.0 (2): osmesa-sys, x11-dl
  ISC (1): libloading
  MIT (26): android_glue, block, dlib, downcast, dwmapi-sys, gdi32-sys, kernel32-sys, malloc_buf, mio, objc, redox_syscall, shell32-sys, slab, slab, token_store, user32-sys, wayland-client, wayland-kbd, wayland-protocols, wayland-scanner, wayland-sys, wayland-window, winapi, winapi-build, ws2_32-sys, xml-rs
  MIT/Unlicense (1): byteorder
  MPL-2.0 (1): mozjs_sys
  N/A (2): mozjs, rjs
  
  

  All of these licenses are compatible with MIT and Apache:

  Desired License\Compatibility with...	Apache	MIT	MPL
  MIT	Yes	-	Yes
  Apache	-	Yes	Yes

  MIT, BSD-3, ISC, and CC0 licenses are so permissive that I can't see any issues with them arising.

• By dual-licensing, we can let users choose the license that motivates them the most:

  • Larger projects may want something a little more protective like the Apache license, since it provides some protections for patents.
  • Smaller/more freedom-oriented projects may prefer MIT simply because it's one of the most permissive out there.

@ricochet1k: Thoughts? :)