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[Loic Dachary <loic@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 05/12/2012 01:30 AM, Doug Hellmann wrote:
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> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Loic Dachary <loic@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:loic@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
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>     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?
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>     > Doug
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>     > [1] https://review.stackforge.org/#/c/29/
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>     >
>     Hi,
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>     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.
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> 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.
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This is reasonable indeed and we will publish all code to ceilometer under Apache from now on. Thanks for raising this issue.

Cheers



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