Change to less restrictive license about pytest-testmon HOT 8 CLOSED

Ok, thanks for the link. I'll change the license.

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@dmitry-mukhin @pascalwhoop done and published to PYPI: https://pypi.org/project/pytest-testmon/ . Thanks for reaching out.

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alternatively, consider making it available in a way where companies can donate some money and in exchange get to use the license, e.g. via github sponsors?

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+1

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Hi Pascal.

I didn't anticipate that this would be a problem. Do you think companies do any derivative work from testmon? I assume it's easy not to include pytest and pytest plugins in production environment and therefore the virality of AGPL is not a problem.

Developers routinely use (GPL licensed) Linux for developing commercial programs and it's not a problem to distribute the result without a source code.
Just using AGPL software to develop a web application is also not a problem because you don't do derivative work and don't serve the AGPL software over network.

What do you think?

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The problem here is that companies don't have resources to handle such risks.
So it's easier just to straight out ban anything GPL related then to fight with various auditors.
E.g.: https://opensource.google/documentation/reference/using/agpl-policy/

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thx also from my side, as dmitry mentioned, my company and many others just outright ban anything that could get them into trouble. red tape..

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@pascalwhoop let's keep this open for visibility?
it's easier to track.
we'll start using the package again when it's closed after license changed :)

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