[Hebmorph-thinktank] Notification of a license change

[Itamar Syn-H. <it...@co...>]

Hi all,


Recently we had a conversation here over HebMorph's licensing. My 
position was that although my selection of GPLv2 was incorrect, I don't 
see an urgent need to change that since I trust people will act in good 
faith.


Unfortunately, days after I made that statement I was proven wrong.


This made me do some reading, and it turns out the licensing choice was 
even worse than I thought. Among other things, it is also completely 
incompatible with Lucene/Solr's license, and that isn't good at all. 
After a lot of thought and discussions, I decided to change HebMorph's 
license.


Effective immediately, including my next push to the github repo, 
HebMorph's license is AGPLv3. This resolves all issues coming from 
GPLv2, and hopefully will remove any future debates and license 
infringements. I explained the intention behind this, and a lot more, in 
length here: 
http://www.code972.com/blog/2011/06/some-words-on-hebmorphs-licensing/.


Due to the unintended conflict of licenses, any previous versions of 
HebMorph have to move to the new license.


Any OSS projects affected by this can approach me privately.


Comments welcome,


Itamar.