<div dir="ltr">Yes, ideally. How ever, linking to older GPLv2 code may be problematic with Apache License. QEMU is GPLv2.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 11:07 AM, David Nalley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david@gnsa.us" target="_blank">david@gnsa.us</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Personally, I see dual-licensing as being better, but not ideal. It<br>
still leaves a lot of confusion on the part of the non-FOSS-zealots.<br>
I'd personally advocate for a single permissive license.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
--David<br>
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On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Anand Babu Periasamy<br>
<<a href="mailto:abperiasamy@gmail.com">abperiasamy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I cannot agree more. I have been advocating to dual-license or re-license<br>
> GlusterFS under Apache Software License v2 for the last two years. GPL<br>
> defends freedom strongly, but hurts adoption. Folks at Red Hat care about<br>
> software freedom more than adoption. Lets push it once again.<br>
> -ab<br>
><br>
><br>
> On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 8:40 AM, John Mark Walker <<a href="mailto:johnmark@johnmark.org">johnmark@johnmark.org</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Adding advisors list.<br>
>><br>
>> On Aug 10, 2013 11:16 AM, "David Nalley" <<a href="mailto:david@gnsa.us">david@gnsa.us</a>> wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>> 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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> --<br>
> -ab<br>
><br>
> Imagination is more important than knowledge --Albert Einstein<br>
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