Hello Prometheans, Now that we have agreed to move the Windows Exporter to be an official exporter, we can work on the details.
One of them is the license. The windows exporter is released under MIT, but the CNCF mandates us to release under Apache-2 or get an exeption from the Governing Board: See https://github.com/cncf/foundation/blob/main/charter.md "If the license for a project included in CNCF is not Apache License, Version 2.0, approval of the Governing Board shall be required." In this case, there are 98 identified contributors, and because Apache-2 is less permissive than MIT, making the switch would require us to contact all of them and ask their permission (because Apache-2 would grant anyone perpetual patent over their code). In this sense, I think we should ask for an exception to the GB with the following arguments: - The Windows exporter would be a great addition to the Prometheus project - MIT is a permissive - and Open Source license - Being able to simply *contact* 100 people is unlikely to succeed, even then they would all need to agree - The Windows exporter is not required to run Prometheus or its main components - it is just an optional addon and not part of the core monitoring/alerting product. Note: I am not a lawyer, so this email is written with my best understanding of the matter. Regards, -- Julien Pivotto @roidelapluie -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prometheus Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to prometheus-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-developers/Y5hRlsTywsCUSWuc%40nixos.
