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[GH-ISSUE #333] Dual license as LGPL for Tiki #287

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opened 2026-02-25 21:34:39 +03:00 by kerem · 11 comments

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Originally created by @jasonmunro on GitHub (Mar 27, 2019).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/cypht-org/cypht/issues/333

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Add LGPL license support for easier Tiki integration (https://tiki.org/HomePage)

Originally created by @jasonmunro on GitHub (Mar 27, 2019). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/cypht-org/cypht/issues/333 Originally assigned to: @jasonmunro on GitHub. Add LGPL license support for easier Tiki integration (https://tiki.org/HomePage)

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@marclaporte commented on GitHub (Mar 27, 2019):

Thanks Jason!

So I looked at https://github.com/jasonmunro/cypht/blob/master/composer.json and https://packagist.org/packages/html2text/html2text would need an adjustment. Do you see any others?

FYI to the Cypht community, here is the plan: https://dev.tiki.org/Cypht-integration

@marclaporte commented on GitHub (Mar 27, 2019): Thanks Jason! So I looked at https://github.com/jasonmunro/cypht/blob/master/composer.json and https://packagist.org/packages/html2text/html2text would need an adjustment. Do you see any others? FYI to the Cypht community, here is the plan: https://dev.tiki.org/Cypht-integration

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@jasonmunro commented on GitHub (Jul 3, 2019):

After much thought on this, I think the right thing to do here is re-license Cypht as LGPL instead of GPL. While it's possible to dual license LGPL and GPL, it does not make a lot of sense to do so. The LGPL is a bit of an odd license as it's focus is on 'libraries" as opposed to stand alone programs, but it protects what I care about (Cypht remains free as in beer and speech), and it facilitates integration with the Tiki project which is something else I really care about :)

@jasonmunro commented on GitHub (Jul 3, 2019): After much thought on this, I think the right thing to do here is re-license Cypht as LGPL instead of GPL. While it's possible to dual license LGPL and GPL, it does not make a lot of sense to do so. The LGPL is a bit of an odd license as it's focus is on 'libraries" as opposed to stand alone programs, but it protects what I care about (Cypht remains free as in beer and speech), and it facilitates integration with the Tiki project which is something else I really care about :)

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@marclaporte commented on GitHub (Jul 3, 2019):

@jasonmunro : fantastic! It's simple and will make it easy to share some code.

Tiki is LGPL version 2.1.

Thank you very much!!

@marclaporte commented on GitHub (Jul 3, 2019): @jasonmunro : fantastic! It's simple and will make it easy to share some code. Tiki is LGPL version 2.1. Thank you very much!!

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@jasonmunro commented on GitHub (Apr 20, 2020):

Finally getting around to this, and I can confirm html2text is the only dependency in Cypht that is going to be a problem. I can remove it and replace it with some home grown code that is adequate enough, but sadly it won't do as robust a job formatting the plain text to represent the HTML as this library does.

@jasonmunro commented on GitHub (Apr 20, 2020): Finally getting around to this, and I can confirm html2text is the only dependency in Cypht that is going to be a problem. I can remove it and replace it with some home grown code that is adequate enough, but sadly it won't do as robust a job formatting the plain text to represent the HTML as this library does.

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@dumblob commented on GitHub (Apr 20, 2020):

@mtibben would you be ok to relicense html2text as LGPL or something compatible?

@dumblob commented on GitHub (Apr 20, 2020): @mtibben would you be ok to relicense `html2text` as LGPL or something compatible?

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@marclaporte commented on GitHub (Apr 20, 2020):

@jasonmunro Let's try to solve license issue to get best code and to participate upstream.

I was part of a team that this did this for Bootstrap: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/2054

My experience: most people are just as happy with any Open Source license, and most agree to switch to a license which permits the broadest adoption.

Libraries nowadays are mostly MIT-licensed.

Thanks!

@marclaporte commented on GitHub (Apr 20, 2020): @jasonmunro Let's try to solve license issue to get best code and to participate upstream. I was part of a team that this did this for Bootstrap: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/2054 My experience: most people are just as happy with any Open Source license, and most agree to switch to a license which permits the broadest adoption. Libraries nowadays are mostly MIT-licensed. Thanks!

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@jasonmunro commented on GitHub (Apr 20, 2020):

@marclaporte Just planning a contingency in the case that the author has no interest in dual/changing licenses. We don't use this code a ton, but it does a nice job. I can probably do something decent in 10 or so lines of code, but most importantly I cannot move forward with this license change until this bit is resolved as you are aware because it is a license violation to do so.

@jasonmunro commented on GitHub (Apr 20, 2020): @marclaporte Just planning a contingency in the case that the author has no interest in dual/changing licenses. We don't use this code a ton, but it does a nice job. I can probably do something decent in 10 or so lines of code, but most importantly I cannot move forward with this license change until this bit is resolved as you are aware because it is a license violation to do so.

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@mtibben commented on GitHub (Apr 21, 2020):

@mtibben would you be ok to relicense html2text as LGPL or something compatible?

See https://github.com/mtibben/html2text/issues/71 - you'll need to ask the original author to relicense the code at http://www.chuggnutt.com/html2text

@mtibben commented on GitHub (Apr 21, 2020): > @mtibben would you be ok to relicense `html2text` as LGPL or something compatible? See https://github.com/mtibben/html2text/issues/71 - you'll need to ask the original author to relicense the code at http://www.chuggnutt.com/html2text

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@marclaporte commented on GitHub (Apr 21, 2020):

@jasonmunro : understood.

I already reached out to Jon Abernathy (@chuggnutt). We'll start the process to reach out to all contributors. If we are not ready in time, we can do a release with 10-lines-of-code-interim-solution. And hopefully, it the next release, we'll restore html2text, and even make contributions :-)

If it doesn't work out, we could set it up so 10-lines-of-code becomes built-in solution but end users can easily install additional dependencies themselves. If present, it would override. We have tools in Tiki to help with this: http://doc.tiki.org/Packages
It would be overkill for just this use case, but there will be other use cases where this could be nice. Ex.: https://github.com/jasonmunro/cypht/issues/382

Thanks!

@marclaporte commented on GitHub (Apr 21, 2020): @jasonmunro : understood. I already reached out to Jon Abernathy (@chuggnutt). We'll start the process to reach out to all contributors. If we are not ready in time, we can do a release with 10-lines-of-code-interim-solution. And hopefully, it the next release, we'll restore html2text, and even make contributions :-) If it doesn't work out, we could set it up so 10-lines-of-code becomes built-in solution but end users can easily install additional dependencies themselves. If present, it would override. We have tools in Tiki to help with this: http://doc.tiki.org/Packages It would be overkill for just this use case, but there will be other use cases where this could be nice. Ex.: https://github.com/jasonmunro/cypht/issues/382 Thanks!

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@jasonmunro commented on GitHub (Apr 21, 2020):

work around is in place. It's closer to 30 lines of code but it also seems to be working a bit better than I planned :) (still not nearly as good as html2text)

@jasonmunro commented on GitHub (Apr 21, 2020): work around is in place. It's closer to 30 lines of code but it also seems to be working a bit better than I planned :) (still not nearly as good as html2text)

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@marclaporte commented on GitHub (Jun 23, 2020):

There is also https://packagist.org/packages/soundasleep/html2text

@marclaporte commented on GitHub (Jun 23, 2020): There is also https://packagist.org/packages/soundasleep/html2text