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## License change plan
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Lws is planning to change the pieces that are currently LGPLv2.1+SLE to MIT
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https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT . Stuff that is already CC0 or another
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permissive license will stay as it is.
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This license change is making an already permissive license (it was already LGPL,
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and the SLE removed most restrictions already) even more permissive.
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So I expect most contributors either don't much care or are happy about it.
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Contributors who object should contact me via:
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- the lws mailing list https://libwebsockets.org/mailman/listinfo/libwebsockets
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- github issue https://github.com/warmcat/libwebsockets , or
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- email to `andy@warmcat.com`
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...before **Aug 11 2019**, and I'll rewrite the related code before the change.
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There'll be a last release of the currently-licensed stuff (probably v3.2) and
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then the same code will have the licese grant changed in the sources, become
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master and also have an otherwise identical release, probably v4.0. The v3.2
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stuff won't be maintained (by me anyway... it's FOSS though) but the v4.0
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stuff which is the same except the license will get the usual v4.0-stable
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treatment.
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Even after the change I will continue to rely on users to help me with bug
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reports and patches, work together on new features. The license will no
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longer require it but the practical advantages from staying aligned with
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upstream lws for users remain the same.
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## New features on master
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- `LWS_WITH_NETWORK` cmake option (default on) allows one-step removal of vhost,
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