Re: [prometheus-developers] Windows Exporter License

2023-06-29 Thread Goutham Veeramachaneni
That’s great news! Thanks a lot for keeping on top of it Julien! Goutham > On 29-Jun-2023, at 10:01 AM, Julien Pivotto > wrote: > > The move has been approved by the CNCF governing board, I will move on > with making Windows Exporter an official exporter. > > On 06 Mar 12:05, Julien Pivotto

Re: [prometheus-developers] Windows Exporter License

2023-06-29 Thread Julien Pivotto
The move has been approved by the CNCF governing board, I will move on with making Windows Exporter an official exporter. On 06 Mar 12:05, Julien Pivotto wrote: > I wanted to give you an update on my previous email regarding the > licensing requirements for the Windows Exporter project. I have

Re: [prometheus-developers] Windows Exporter License

2023-03-06 Thread Julien Pivotto
I wanted to give you an update on my previous email regarding the licensing requirements for the Windows Exporter project. I have opened a license exception request with the CNCF, which can be found at the following link: https://github.com/cncf/foundation/issues/514 I will keep you all updated

Re: [prometheus-developers] Windows Exporter License

2022-12-22 Thread Stuart Clark
On 22/12/2022 09:39, Julien Pivotto wrote: On 22 Dec 10:09, Ben Kochie wrote: It was my understanding that license changes, can be done by the copyright holder, without consent of all contributors. Because they do not hold any copyright to the code. IIRC this is how Grafana was able to

Re: [prometheus-developers] Windows Exporter License

2022-12-22 Thread Julien Pivotto
On 22 Dec 10:09, Ben Kochie wrote: > It was my understanding that license changes, can be done by the copyright > holder, without consent of all contributors. Because they do not hold any > copyright to the code. IIRC this is how Grafana was able to relicense from > Apache to AGPL. They did not

Re: [prometheus-developers] Windows Exporter License

2022-12-22 Thread Stuart Clark
On 2022-12-22 09:09, Ben Kochie wrote: It was my understanding that license changes, can be done by the copyright holder, without consent of all contributors. Because they do not hold any copyright to the code. IIRC this is how Grafana was able to relicense from Apache to AGPL. They did not need

Re: [prometheus-developers] Windows Exporter License

2022-12-22 Thread Ben Kochie
It was my understanding that license changes, can be done by the copyright holder, without consent of all contributors. Because they do not hold any copyright to the code. IIRC this is how Grafana was able to relicense from Apache to AGPL. They did not need to get consent from all contributors.

Re: [prometheus-developers] Windows Exporter License

2022-12-22 Thread Julien Pivotto
Yes, I will reach out to GB On 21 Dec 15:05, Julius Volz wrote: > Same! > > On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 4:15 PM Bjoern Rabenstein > wrote: > > > On 13.12.22 11:19, Julien Pivotto wrote: > > > > > > In this sense, I think we should ask for an exception to the GB with the > > > following arguments:

Re: [prometheus-developers] Windows Exporter License

2022-12-21 Thread Julius Volz
Same! On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 4:15 PM Bjoern Rabenstein wrote: > On 13.12.22 11:19, Julien Pivotto wrote: > > > > In this sense, I think we should ask for an exception to the GB with the > > following arguments: > > Silence means consent, right? > > But just in case you are wondering if anyone

Re: [prometheus-developers] Windows Exporter License

2022-12-20 Thread Bjoern Rabenstein
On 13.12.22 11:19, Julien Pivotto wrote: > > In this sense, I think we should ask for an exception to the GB with the > following arguments: Silence means consent, right? But just in case you are wondering if anyone has read your message, I think it makes complete sense, and I fully agree with

[prometheus-developers] Windows Exporter License

2022-12-13 Thread Julien Pivotto
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: