change license to Apache 2.0

[janfb]

In line with the planned license change in sbi, I suggest to change the license of pyknos to Apache 2.0 as well. Please see sbi-dev/sbi#997 for details.

Please indicate your approval of this change by approving this PR or by commenting below.

Thanks 🙏

[michaeldeistler]

Thanks Jan, I approve of changing the license of the pyknos repo to Apache 2.0

[janfb]

@conormdurkan we need your approval as well because it's all based on your MDN implementation :)

[janfb]

@harry-fuyu we kindly ask for your approval because you contributed during your internship with us.

[harry-fuyu]

Hi Jan, Sorry for the late reply, of course I agree with the change. Hope all is well with you! Best regards, Harry

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[janfb]

Hi Harry, thanks for your reply! While you are at it, could you please also approve the change in SBI? sbi-dev/sbi#997 Thanks, Jan

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[harry-fuyu]

Hi Jan, Done! I didn’t get email notification for the mention, sorry for the delay! Best regards, Harry

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On Tue, 2 Apr 2024 at 20:58, Jan ***@***.***> wrote: Hi Harry, thanks for your reply! While you are at hit, could you please also approve the change in SBI? sbi-dev/sbi#997 Thanks, Jan On Apr 2, 2024 at 14:52 +0200, Harry Fu Yu ***@***.***>, wrote: > Hi Jan, > > Sorry for the late reply, of course I agree with the change. Hope all is > well with you! > > Best regards, > Harry > > > On Tue, 2 Apr 2024 at 20:26, Jan ***@***.***> wrote: > > > @harry-fuyu <https://github.com/harry-fuyu> we kindly ask for your > > approval because you contributed during your internship with us. > > > > — > > Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub > > <#28 (comment)>, or > > unsubscribe > > < https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AKJH4AYTX7HTVBW4EFQSOELY3KPX5AVCNFSM6AAAAABFTJAIKSVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMZDAMZRHEYDQOJUHA> > > . > > You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: > > ***@***.***> > > > — > Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe. > You are receiving this because you were assigned.Message ID: ***@***.***> — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#28 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AKJH4AZL4YKLWL7TFC2IEPLY3KTOPAVCNFSM6AAAAABFTJAIKSVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMZDAMZRHE3TKNBZGM> . You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[michaeldeistler]

@alvorithm @jan-matthis @conormdurkan please have a look and approve the pull request if you are fine with the change.

[alvorithm]

While in general I remain a proponent of strong copyleft licenses, I also wholeheartedly share the goal to make pyknos and sbi approachable for a wider community of users and developers. Acknowledging compelling arguments made by fellow team members, I am now keen to find out in practice to what extent adopting weaker copyleft might help to that end.

Hence, I approve relicensing pyknos under the Apache 2.0 license.

[michaeldeistler]

@conormdurkan could you please have a look and approve the pull request if you are fine with the change.

[janfb]

Given that @conormdurkan agreed to the re-licensing of the code in sbi, and the code used here is actually the same code, I would opt for merging this pull request soon.

[michaeldeistler]

I would be fine with merging too.