Any specific reason why this package is released under GPLv2?

[jberends]

Hi,

This package is released under the GNU General Public License v2 and as a matter of fact that license might be a bit aggressive for some use-cases.

Is there is specific reason you choose to go with the GPL v2?

When I look at the code and I see other packages of similar depth and use, the licenses schemes in those packages are a bit more permissive such as MIT, BSD or Apache 2.0.

At the moment I was conveying a survey of used licenses in underlying libraries of our cloud product and this package is referred to and used. Hence it came up to make you aware.

[tedivm]

Apparently they changed they license without getting consent from the previous contributors, making the license change illegal.