<p>Adding advisors list.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 10, 2013 11:16 AM, "David Nalley" <<a href="mailto:david@gnsa.us">david@gnsa.us</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi folks,<br>
<br>
Just tossing out a question or two.<br>
<br>
So I'd like to propose that we consider changing to either the ASLv2,<br>
MIT, or BSD licenses.<br>
<br>
Why? So I personally strongly identify with copyleft principles, but<br>
my experience in the past few years are that the practical and<br>
irrational concerns around licensing hurt adoption and hurt<br>
contribution.<br>
<br>
Specifically, I found that several very large enterprises (~100k<br>
employees each) said that they never even considered CloudStack at the<br>
time because it was licensed under a GPL license. The dual-licensing<br>
bit muddies the waters a bit rather than helps. For the folks who are<br>
educated very well in open source, it's great. For folks who aren't as<br>
sophisiticated in OSS licensing it's merely confusing.<br>
<br>
Second - there's the potential damper on contribution. Despite how<br>
long GPL has been around, much FUD still remains around copyleft<br>
licensing; and that keeps people employed by large corporate users<br>
from contributing (at least that has been my experience) The more<br>
enlightened understand that it isn't going to virally apply to<br>
anything that they develop, but there is still a substantial number of<br>
companies that simply don't get it.<br>
<br>
Finally - I don't see a downside to becoming more permissively<br>
licensed aside from the work involved. Moving to a single, liberal<br>
open source license has the potential for us to increase our community<br>
size, both user and contributor. And from a weird marketing angle,<br>
it's also likely, as a one time event, to drive some interest in the<br>
project, as relicensing events tend to be geeky news that attracts<br>
attention.<br>
<br>
Having done it once, I know it's a ton of work to get all of the<br>
contributors to agree to relicense. That said, what are the collective<br>
thoughts on this?<br>
<br>
--David<br>
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