This is actually a non-issue. The codebase was moved to LGPL over a year ago, there was just two places this was not updated. First LaunchPad and second was the setup.py file. I've corrected both.
On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 7:09 AM Marco Ceppi <marco.ce...@canonical.com> wrote: > I'll take a look into this. charm-helpers seems to suffer a bit from > license schizophrenia. LP lists it as GPLv3, the code has both GPL and LGPL > license in root and setup.py lists it as AGPL. I will investigate this a > bit more and email the list in a separate thread when this is resolved. > > On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 7:07 AM Mark Shuttleworth <m...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > >> >> OK, let's explore moving that to LGPL which I think would be more >> appropriate for things like that and layers. >> >> Mark >> >> On 09/02/16 12:04, John Meinel wrote: >> > I agree, I was a bit surprised that charmhelpers was AGPL instead of >> LGPL. >> > I think it makes sense as you still would contribute back to the layers >> you >> > touch, but it doesn't turn your entire charm into GPL. >> > >> > John >> > =-> >> > >> > >> > On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 3:38 PM, Mark Shuttleworth <m...@ubuntu.com> >> wrote: >> > >> >> On 09/02/16 09:25, John Meinel wrote: >> >>> The more edge case is that charmhelpers itself is AGPL, so if your >> charm >> >>> imported charmhelpers, then that is more of a grey area. You likely >> need >> >> to >> >>> open source the actual charm, which sets up configuration, etc of the >> >>> program. However, you still don't have to give out the source to the >> >>> program you are configuring. >> >> For stuff that we publish as libraries, we tend to prefer LGPL, which >> >> doesn't force a license on the end product or codebase. So if we need >> to >> >> revisit the charmhelpers license we will do so. >> >> >> >> Mark >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Juju mailing list >> Juju@lists.ubuntu.com >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/juju >> >
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