[katello-devel] Licensing?

[James Bowes]

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 08:23:29AM -0400, Bryan Kearney wrote:
> OK...
> 
> Katello is GPLV2, and Aeolus is ASL. It would be nice to make it
> easy to share code, and we know Apache is kinda a big bully around
> their fancy license. We can not move to GPLV3 (like Foreman) since
> that is no better [1]. Couple of options:
> 
> 1) Katello can switch to either ASL, or MIT.
> 2) Katello could dual license current and ASL/MIT
> 3) Do nothing
>

If you are considering dual licensing, I would say while you're at it, move
the code to be GPLv2 or any later version, at the user's option.

> I dont think we need to worry about any of the backend projects,
> just the rails parts.
> 
> -- bk
> 
> 
> 
> [1] http://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html
> 
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-James
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