Can you rip out Django's ORM into its own library? A licensing question
JamesTimmins · x · 2026-08-20
A developer poses a hypothetical: if someone wanted to extract the Django ORM into a standalone library — or more likely, borrow most of its design patterns to build a new SQL query library — would that be kosher or even legal from a licensing standpoint? It touches the boundary between copying code (bound by Django's BSD license) and imitating design patterns, which copyright generally doesn't restrict.
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