This wg-easy?

Definitely not an OSI approved license, but does look like they made an attempt in the spirit of GPL, no?

https://github.com/wg-easy/wg-easy/blob/master/LICENSE.md

> You may:

> - Use this software for yourself;

> - Use this software for a company;

> - Modify this software, as long as you:

> * Publish the changes on GitHub as an open-source & linked fork;

> * Don't remove any links to the original project or donation pages;

> You may not:

> - Use this software in a commercial product without a license from the original author;

"Spirit of the GPL" not really, and the terms you quoted already make it incompatible with the GPL itself. Pretty draconian if you ask me (Github???).

Draconian, perhaps. Or just clumsy.

I leaned not to attribute to malice what can be attributed to incompetence.

This is accurate. I just recently added the GUI from wg-easy as a revival of the project. If you want to fully open source version you can go back a couple commits before I added the GUI.

Either there's a giant loophole in that license or it prevents you from modifying wg-easy at all. In particular, the prohibition on commercial use is clearly not open source, so the only way you could comply with the requirement to publish your changes in an open-source fork would be for your fork to have a different license. If that is allowed, then the giant loophole is that you could pick MIT, and then the rest of the world could use your fork and ignore the original's license. If that's not allowed, then there's no way for you to comply with that requirement and so you can't modify wg-easy at all.

I think you're misunderstanding how licenses work. Being that wire hole is a conglomerate of a multitude of projects I am required to utilize the most restrictive version of that license.

I believe you're also thoroughly misunderstanding the license terms that are present. The license says that you can utilize it for a commercial settings and in a commercial environment you just cannot resell the product.

This means that an Enterprise can openly use it within their Enterprise they just cannot sell it as a service that they offer.

While this is not the license that I would have chosen for a Greenfield project but at the moment I am at the mercy of the licenses in place for the projects that I am using. Once I replace the UI with a proprietary one everything will be fully open source the way it's intended

Your license does not seem quite the same as wg-easy's. Wg-easy's states that the allowed uses are "for yourself" or "for a company". Yours states "for personal purposes" or "for a company".

As an academic/non-profit researcher who frequently works through my personal devices, I presumably can't use wg-easy in any workplace setting, but presumably can't legally use your software at all.

Sorry, everywhere I said "this" there I meant wg-easy, not WireHole. I just fixed it to clarify that.

> Once I replace the UI with a proprietary one everything will be fully open source the way it's intended

Huh? Proprietary is basically the opposite of open source.

I'm guessing they meant "in-house".

Apologize for the semantics. By proprietary I mean that I will develop a new UI, have full and whole rights to do with the project that I choose and that would be to fully open source it

I would suggest replacing "proprietary" with "in-house" then.

Suggest as you wish. It's purely semantic and I've since clarified :)

oof, I've been using wg-easy and didn't realize the weird license situation. I like it but the image doesn't get updated as often as I'd like. I've been meaning to either build out an alternative or at least rebuild wg-easy with the latest packages

My plan is to replace the UI with a fully open-source version. This is part of the early revival.

Awesome, let me know if/how I can help!

Thanks!

Huh? Yes it is.

I believe OP is referring to OSI licenses as being open source. Wg-easy uses a simple but proprietary license.