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Re:Grafana, Loki, and Tempo will be relicensed to AGPLv3 by josephcsible on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @01:43PM (#26877899)
Amazon forking ElasticSearch to keep its old license is a good thing, since ElasticSearch's new license is a proprietary visible-source license. Grafana's new license is still FOSS, so it's really not a fair comparison.
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Re:Grafana, Loki, and Tempo will be relicensed to AGPLv3 by papito on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @04:14PM (#26880930)
Elastic made a massive blunder by open-sourcing Kibana. SumoLogic just took it and builtnon that. You open-source the underlying technology - not the product built on top of it.
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Re:Grafana, Loki, and Tempo will be relicensed to AGPLv3 by burmanm on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @04:23PM (#26881067)
Kibana was open source before they formed the company.
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Re:Grafana, Loki, and Tempo will be relicensed to AGPLv3 by hutrdvnj on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @02:39PM (#26879108)
While it is true that Grafana's new license is still FOSS not every company, public cloud provider is willing to accept the AGPLv3 license[1]. Hence a fork with the old license is not unlikely.

[1] https://opensource.google/docs/using/agpl-policy/

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Re:Grafana, Loki, and Tempo will be relicensed to AGPLv3 by sitkack on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @03:25PM (#26880089)
Google has the same OSS philosophy as Microsoft and the rest of the software community needs to pressure Google to change its stance on the AGPL.
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Re:Grafana, Loki, and Tempo will be relicensed to AGPLv3 by crazypython on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @04:55PM (#26881535)
That document is based on lies. AGPLv3 does not force you to make code running on a different server open-source.
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Re:Grafana, Loki, and Tempo will be relicensed to AGPLv3 by josephcsible on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @02:50PM (#26879365)
True, but my point wasn't so much about the likelihood of a fork as whether or not it would be a good thing.
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