Please use the Zlib license <3 <3 <3

[Lokathor]

It's better for the long term health of the Rust ecosystem.

You don't need to remove the MIT license though! You could simply add Zlib as an option

license = "MIT OR Zlib"

[weswigham]

swiftlang/swift#17

[lunabunn]

@mooman219 What is your stance on this change?

Was this change to be made, ever, now would be the perfect time with only 4 contributors to the project.

It's better for the long term health of the Rust ecosystem.

IMHO, zlib is just an all-around better alternative to MIT. Instead of forcing the burden of including license text on its users (which is just more to think about, and doesn't mean much considering this license text could be hidden literally anywhere), it encourages attribution in a nice, open-source, permissive manner; though, as Lokathor said, you should leave the MIT as an option either way, for compatibility with the Rust stdlib.

I think this issue should be given some thought and, if you are not a fan of the idea, be closed. Each time I come to this repo and see this issue still open, I'm filled with hope. Yet, the crate is still licensed under MIT, with no apparent moves being made toward the superior license. (┰⌒┰)

+edit: Just to be clear, I love you and your work and will use fontdue in all my projects, MIT or zlib. However, I will love you and your work so much more with zlib. Please use the Zlib license <3 <3 <3

[mooman219]

it's hard to switch D:

[Lokathor]

Just add it as a PR and get all previous contribution people who touched code to sign off on it

[mooman219]

I cannot switch licenses for legal reasons right now.