Relicense hyprlang to lgpl 3

[vaxerski]

Due to some annoying license incompatibilities, GPL and BSD don't like each other, so I'd like to leave this to be more permissive.

cc all contributors, please leave a comment "I consent to this change" or I'll be forced to yeet your contributions.

@fufexan @solopasha @spikespaz @earboxer

ref, gpl:

[fufexan]

I consent to this change.

Also, please change nix/default.nix's license key from licenses.gpl3Plus to licenses.bsd3
Nevermind I did it.

[spikespaz]

All of my contributions released publicly to open source communities are henceforth transferred in ownership to the original Code Owner of the project which they were submitted to, who may do with them as he pleases, including but not exclusive to relicensing.

[solopasha]

Ok, i'm drunk rn, but I consent to this change

[earboxer]

GPL and BSD don't like each other

BSD-3-Clause is compatible with GPLv3, it's just that GPLv3 is the viral license (giving users more permissions by preventing proprietary programs from linking to it).

If the issue is that you want non-free programs to be able to use this library (as suggested by the screenshot), then I suggest using LGPL-3.0-only. (In fact, I consent to license my past contributions to hyprlang under LGPL-3.0-only.)

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/License_compatibility for more information.

[spikespaz]

@earboxer I was thinking the same thing but was too lazy to double check myself. I support this motive, the license should be LGPL.

[vaxerski]

ugh, fine.

[vaxerski]

I'll need all four of you to write again "I consent to having all my contributions to this repository relicensed to lgpl 3.0 only"

[fufexan]

I consent to having all my contributions to this repository relicensed to LGPL-3.0-Only.

[solopasha]

I consent to having all my contributions to this repository relicensed to lgpl 3.0 only

[vaxerski]

@earboxer @spikespaz pretty please?

[spikespaz]

I consent to having all my contributions to this repository relicensed to LGPL-3.0-Only.

[earboxer]

I consent to having all my contributions to this repository relicensed to LGPL-3.0-Only.

[vaxerski]

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