Re: Kafka ecosystem licensing question

2015-01-21 Thread Jonathan Natkins
Hi Eliot, I can't speak for the Kafka PMC, but as a general rule, if the code is going to be contributed to the Kafka project itself, it must be Apache-licensed. What you can do, and what many organizations do is release code separately via a public Github account, which would allow you to choose

Kafka ecosystem licensing question

2015-01-21 Thread Weitz, Eliot
Hello, I lead a group of developers at our company, ViaSat, who are building a set of stream processing services on top of Kafka. We would very much like to open source our work and become part of the Kafka “ecosystem” contributing back to the community. Our company is fairly new to participa