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