Open sourcing Pixie under Apache 2.0 license

Re:Open sourcing Pixie under Apache 2.0 license by nserrino on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @05:03PM (#27055795)

Pixie maintainer / OP here. There's a lot of debate right now about licensing in the open source community. We made the call to go with Apache 2.0, and the lead of our project wrote in the post about why we made that decision.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Open sourcing Pixie under Apache 2.0 license by remram on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @07:46PM (#27057380)

And your CLA [1] does not reassign copyright, ensuring that you can't re-license later. Good on you!

[1]: https://github.com/pixie-labs/pixie/blob/main/CLA.md

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Open sourcing Pixie under Apache 2.0 license by pabs3 on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @09:46PM (#27058215)

The CLA gives permission to sublicense, but it isn't clear to me if this allows proprietary relicensing or not.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Open sourcing Pixie under Apache 2.0 license by zasgar on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @09:59PM (#27058293)

Lead maintainer of Pixie here.

Pixie will remain licensed under Apache 2.0. We are also working on moving Pixie over to the CNCF, to maintain this guarantee. This is being tracked here: https://github.com/cncf/toc/issues/651

In addition, we will likely move to a DCO (Developer Certificate of Origin). We are still trying to figure out the exact logistics, but this will allow commits to happen without signing a CLA.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Open sourcing Pixie under Apache 2.0 license by remram on Thursday May 06, 2021 @12:13PM (#27065414)

It seems pretty good to me:

> We agree to license the Contribution only under the terms of the license or licenses which We are using on the Submission Date for the Material

[ Parent | on HN ]