Hi All, Monkey HTTP Server is currently under the LGPLv2 License and personally having a long-term open source background, i am seriously considering to move from LGPLv2 to BSD 3-clause license. Most of the reasons are:
- Monkey should serve to help any HTTP/Web technology on any environment, and restricting to just *GPL* extensions and linking is not helping to a huge adoption. - I want to see Monkey everywhere, we already have the stack and technology for high-end production and Embedded Linux environments, license should not be a restriction. - Business are afraid of GPL adoption when linking or embedded third party components such as Monkey can offer, BSD family is much preferred. - Nowadays.. personally i don't mind if someone embed Monkey and do not open his code, we did something for good and is being used for good, we dont need more, we keep doing a good job. General GPL* Licenses are very good, but we need something better for Monkey needs, a few examples of projects that use BSD like license are: Redis and NginX. With this change we will be even more open allowing anyone to use our technology without restrictions, mass adoption would be awesome and this is the start. I have emailed contributors about if they have some concern about changing Licensing terms of their contributions, i will keep you posted once i get full replies. best, -- Eduardo Silva http://edsiper.linuxchile.cl http://monkey-project.com _______________________________________________ Monkey mailing list [email protected] http://lists.monkey-project.com/listinfo/monkey
