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Proposal: Dual-licensing under Apache 2.0 or MIT #53
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The project is currently licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
It might be worth considering a dual-licensing approach under both Apache 2.0 or MIT terms, similar to how the Rust Project is licensed.
Adopting dual-licensing could help increase adoption and improve compatibility with projects that prefer the MIT license.
@cmpute Would this be something you’d be open to exploring?
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oech3 commentedon Feb 19, 2026
Why? It is already compat license with MIT.
xtqqczze commentedon Feb 19, 2026
Apache-2.0 is not compatible with GPL-2.0 or LGPL-2.1. Rust is dual-licensed under MIT OR Apache-2.0, which is GPL-compatible.
oech3 commentedon Feb 19, 2026
needs agreements of all contributors. I think contributors from uutils would say OK, but there are some other contributors.
xtqqczze commentedon Feb 19, 2026
Do you agree to relicense your contributions under MIT OR Apache-2.0 (dual license)?
robinhundt commentedon Feb 19, 2026
Yes, I agree.
oech3 commentedon Jul 25, 2026
Any progress? 2 people left.
xtqqczze commentedon Jul 25, 2026
The following command lists all users who reacted to #53 (comment) with 👍:
gh api repos/uutils/num-prime/issues/comments/3928741263/reactions \ --jq '.[] | select(.content == "+1") | .user.login'sylvestre commentedon Sep 22, 2026
@cakebaker @chadbrewbaker ping ? :)
cakebaker commentedon Sep 22, 2026
It's fine for me.
[-]Proposal: Dual-licensing under Apache 2.0 and MIT[/-][+]Proposal: Dual-licensing under Apache 2.0 or MIT[/+]haroune-dev commentedon Sep 27, 2026
Yes, I'm okay with this.
sylvestre commentedon Sep 27, 2026
@chadbrewbaker @krakow10 you are the two last :)
krakow10 commentedon Sep 27, 2026
I am onboard with this change. You may relicense my README.md typo fix as dual-licensed Apache 2.0 | MIT.
xtqqczze commentedon Oct 2, 2026
@sylvestre I think we have enough agreement to move forward with this.
Given that @chadbrewbaker’s contribution appears to be relatively trivial from a copyright perspective:
I think we can proceed with the dual-licensing change.