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[Doug Hellmann <doug.hellmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 3:50 AM, Loic Dachary <loic@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  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> 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?
>> >
>> > 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.
>

Good, thank you!

Doug