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[Doug Hellmann <doug.hellmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Loic Dachary <loic@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

Doug