Best license to use for houdini – axidraw module

[ch3]

Hello,

I recently purchased an axidraw and most my designs are generated in Houdini. To streamline my process and avoid the multiple crashes I’ve experiences with inkscape, I ended up wrapping axidraw’s python API into a Houdini Digital Asset and I’ve exposed most of its functionality. Apart from a few bugs that I need to fix it works great and eventually I would like to share with everyone.

I’ve never released code that may potentially be used by others and I am not very familiar with the subtle differences between the various licenses used in GitHub.

Which one do you think makes the most sense to use?
I noticed the axidraw library is under GNUv2.0 but I also use svglib which is under GNUv3.0

Thank you
Georgios

[Windell Oskay]

GPL 2.0 code may be re-released under GPL 3.0, and if the other code requires 3.0, then that’s what you need to go with.

[ch3]

Oh sorry I got it wrong, this is the SVG lib I use, which doesn’t use one of the templates
https://github.com/mozman/svgwrite/blob/master/LICENSE.TXT

So maybe GPL2.0 would be ok?

thanks for the input

[Windell Oskay]

Presumably, if you also include that required copyright notice. Dealing with things that have multiple licenses can be tricky.

[ch3]

Right, I will add that in too.

And just so I understand what the good practise is in general with freely available code and libraries…
Should I always include the license of any library I use in my code? Even if that’s just an include without any modifications?

thanks again

[Windell Oskay]

Most libraries that you include will already have a license file with them. Generally, check with each library that you consider using to determine its license properties well before starting to use it.

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