[katello-devel] Licensing?

[Bryan Kearney]

On 08/14/2012 09:51 AM, Miroslav Suchý wrote:
> On 08/14/2012 02:23 PM, 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
>>
>> I dont think we need to worry about any of the backend projects, just
>> the rails parts.
>
> There has been history of other companies, which built upon Red Hat
> projects. And I'm afraid some of them are not open-source companies by
> heart and they may to hesitate to contribute back or even release source
> code.
> GPLv2 forces you to release source code, while neither MIT nor ASL do
> not forces you to release (modified) source code.
>
> For this reason I vote for 3) - do nothing and stay on GPLv2.
>
>
I guess a third option is to break out common code to gems or other 
rails engines type reusable concepts, and then license those MIT.
-- bk