[Freeipa-devel] Re: [Freeipa-users] IPA license

[Dmitri Pal]

Andrea Modesto Rossi wrote:
> On Mar, 15 Settembre 2009 9:55 pm, Dmitri Pal wrote:
>   
>> We are considering to release freeIPA v2 under a less restrictive
>> license than we used in IPA v1.
>> It was "GPLv2 only" in v1.x and we think about "GPLv2 and later" or
>> "GPLv3 and later".
>> Please respond to this mail if there are any suggestions, comments or
>> concerns.
>>     
>
>
> Well, GPL3 is a good idea but ts there a particular reason to change
> license policy?
>
>
>   
It is just the fact that we came up with other components that we want
to treat
independently. It makes sense to license them with more flexible license
for better adoption but exiting freeIPA license would create obstacles
for it.

-- 
Thank you,
Dmitri Pal

Engineering Manager IPA project,
Red Hat Inc.


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