I agree, I was a bit surprised that charmhelpers was AGPL instead of LGPL. I think it makes sense as you still would contribute back to the layers you touch, but it doesn't turn your entire charm into GPL.
John =-> On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 3:38 PM, Mark Shuttleworth <m...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > On 09/02/16 09:25, John Meinel wrote: > > The more edge case is that charmhelpers itself is AGPL, so if your charm > > imported charmhelpers, then that is more of a grey area. You likely need > to > > open source the actual charm, which sets up configuration, etc of the > > program. However, you still don't have to give out the source to the > > program you are configuring. > > For stuff that we publish as libraries, we tend to prefer LGPL, which > doesn't force a license on the end product or codebase. So if we need to > revisit the charmhelpers license we will do so. > > Mark > >
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