I agree. On 07/17/2017 02:21 PM, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote: > Dear Qubes Contributors, > > In the process of developing commercial extensions[1], we may need to > interface them directly with Qubes core scripts. While our goal is to > keep Qubes OS itself as open source, this may not apply to some > commercial extensions. The majority of commercial components can be > implemented as standalone applications (qrexec services, etc.) and > specific configurations (including salt state files). But some of them > may need to interface with core Qubes code directly (proverbial "import > qubes" in Python). Doing this with the qubes-core-admin component, > which is licensed under GPL, would force such an extension to be > licensed under GPL also. In many cases, we may decide to do this anyway, > but we'd prefer not to force this (on ourselves or anyone else). > > We have three goals here: > - Keep core Qubes OS code open source > - Allow proprietary extensions > - Find ways for Qubes OS to survive and grow > > In order to achieve those goals, we'd like to change the > qubes-core-admin component license in Qubes 4.0 to "LGPLv2.1 (or later)". > License text is here: > > https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.1.en.html > > To do so, we must ask everyone who contributed code used in > qubes-core-admin in > Qubes 4.0 to accept this change. Here is the list of contributors: > > - Andrew David Wong (Axon) > - Bahtiar `kalkin-` Gadimov > - Desobediente Civil > - HW42 > - Ivan Konov > - Jasper Tron > - Jeepler > - Jon Griffiths > - Mario Geckler > - Michal Rostecki > - Nicklaus McClendon > - Olivier Médoc > - o > - Patrick Schleizer > - Joonas Lehtonen > - qubesuser > - Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) > - Rusty Bird > - ttasket > - Unman > - Victor Lopez > - Vít Šesták > - Zrubi > > If you are on this list, and you agree to the license change, please > reply to this email with a simple "I agree." > If you signed your patch(es), we would strongly prefer that you use > the same key to sign your reply. > > *Important!* > > Ideally, we would like to get consent from everyone on this list > before proceeding with this change. However, it is possible that > one or more people on this list will not reply (e.g. because we do > not have a working email address for them, or they no longer check > the address we have). Therefore, we are adopting the following > policy: *If you do not reply with one month, we will assume that > you consent to this change.* (If you need more time to decide, > simply reply within one month to tell us that you need more time.) > > [1] https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2016/11/30/qubes-commercialization/ > > >
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