Grafana, Loki, and Tempo will be relicensed to AGPLv3

Re:Grafana, Loki, and Tempo will be relicensed to AGPLv3 by DetroitThrow on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @05:31PM (#26882028)

I'm glad you were able to find a FOSS license that's able to support your business. I think grafana lab's use of AGPL will help encourage its adoption by other businesses wanting to make money in free software as well.

For other's who are interested, here's a faq from grafana including a discussion about "Why AGPL and not SSPL?": https://grafana.com/blog/2021/04/20/qa-with-our-ceo-on-relic...

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Grafana, Loki, and Tempo will be relicensed to AGPLv3 by xbar on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @05:45PM (#26882197)

Very much this.

As a commercial consumer of FOSS, AGPL has been troubling for me. As a non-commercial hacker, AGPL has been fine for me: GPL is fine here, and distribution as defined by SaaS or tarball is equivalent; I share back.

My opinions are that non-commercial FOSS projects probably shouldn't choose AGPL but that small-ish commercial FOSS projects (like Grafana, et al) probably should so that big commercial entities don't eat their lunch.

AGPL seemed like a tool that was mostly ahead of its time but is nice to have now.

[ Parent | on HN ]