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Re:Grafana, Loki, and Tempo will be relicensed to AGPLv3 by pauldix on Thursday April 22, 2021 @11:22AM (#26903757)
The Grafana Enterprise point is the most salient here. The answer is no, they wouldn't have been able to create closed source plugins for a commercial product. Only AGPL code. As I've stated before: copyleft licenses are an evolutionary dead end: https://www.influxdata.com/blog/copyleft-and-community-licen....

P.S. Hey Todd ;)

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Re:Grafana, Loki, and Tempo will be relicensed to AGPLv3 by toddpersen on Thursday April 22, 2021 @11:24PM (#26910669)
Oh, hey! Nice to have at least one person here that isn’t going to jump on the AGPL bandwagon. ;)
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