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by ssddanbrown 811 days ago
> Honestly a better choice for a library would always be LGPL.

That's what they used originally, but I get the impression they want someone a little more forceful to move folks onto their commercial licenses.

> I (and no sane person/lawyer) would consider your project derivative work, thus except for the need to relicense the code as GPL.

I wouldn't consider it a derivative work either, but from what I know that does not matter. TinyMCE is a core part that we also currently distribute with the application. The technical details of GPL combined works can get fuzzy in these contexts as it seems like a lot of it was originally written for compiled code. There are ways we could maybe technically put it at "arms distance" but there are still considerations if users have to add that (currently core) element back in. It can help our distribution but the end result is kind of the same really. This may be more significant in my case since It's a core value to me that this project is very much "batteries included".