On 05/12/2012 01:30 AM, Doug Hellmann wrote: > > > On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Loic Dachary <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > On 05/11/2012 10:01 PM, Doug Hellmann wrote: > > I was very surprised to see the change to license ceilometer as AGPL > [1]. Why are we not using the same Apache v2 license that all other OpenStack > projects are using? > > > > Doug > > > > [1] https://review.stackforge.org/#/c/29/ > > > > > Hi, > > Of course it will be Apache v2 when it is incubated, otherwise it will be > rejected. eNovance policy is to publish server side code under AGPLv3+, hence > the change. This should have been discussed before though. If this raises any > issues please let me know and I'll make sure they are resolved. > > > As I pointed out privately, it seems like it will be easier to start with the > license we know we will need later than to change the license after we have a > bunch of contributions. I appreciate the rationale behind a "default to > copyleft" policy, but the community already has a standard for licensing and > that should take precedence here. > This is reasonable indeed and we will publish all code to ceilometer under Apache from now on. Thanks for raising this issue.
Cheers -- Loïc Dachary Chief Research Officer // eNovance labs http://labs.enovance.com // ? [email protected] ? +33 1 49 70 99 82
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