License: MIT and LGPLv3

[xyproto]

Hello Florian Schlachter,

First of all, thanks for creating pongo2! I'm using it in Algernon, and it's working really well. It has good performance and is a solid package.

After running a "license analyzer" tool called FOSSA (link), I am told that Algernon is not only using the MIT license (or MIT compatible licenses) but also LGPLv3. This has consequences for how a statically compiled executable can be distributed. I see that pongo2 also uses an MIT license, like Algernon, so perhaps this is also in your interest.

pongo2 uses juju/errors, which is licensed under the LGPLv3 license. This has consequences for how a statically compiled Algernon binary can be distributed.

This is a feature request to make pongo2 fully compatible with the MIT license.

Best regards,
Alexander F. Rødseth

[jclc]

Hello, I am also disappointed that a dependency effectively taints this library as GPL. On a cursory glance the imported error package isn't used extensively however. Does the new errors package in the standard library provide the necessary functionality, so that juju/errors can be replaced?

[flosch]

Feel free to submit a PR which removes the dependency. I'd be glad to see something which only uses the standard library. Any help is highly appreciated.

[jclc]

Turns out it was just a matter of 2 search-and-replaces.

[flosch]

Thanks for the PR!