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 <[email protected]> > 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 wrote: >> 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 on any developments with this request. >> >> On 22 Dec 09:33, Stuart Clark wrote: >>> 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 to get consent >>>> from all contributors. >>>> >>>> Of course, old versions are subject to the old license, but moving >>>> from prometheus-community to prometheus would effectively be a fork. >>>> >>>> In this case we could do it with permission from the original author >>>> as stated in the LICENSE file. >>>> >>> >>> You are correct in saying that it is the copyright owner(s) who have to >>> agree to any license changes. >>> >>> However by default if you contribute something to a project you are now one >>> of the copyright owners (only to your contributed code, not the whole >>> thing). The original owner is nothing special (other than possibly being the >>> largest owner, because there might be more of their code than anyone else). >>> >>> The only way around this (which I assume Grafana did, and other projects >>> require) is when contributing you sign a copyright transfer agreement - that >>> way legally the person/organisation the contributors transferred ownership >>> to is the only owner, and they have the right to do anything they wanted >>> (including using the code commercially or making everything closed source). >>> >>> So if this happened, and there is a record of signed copyright transfers the >>> license could be changed just by the agreement of the one owner. Presumably >>> however that isn't the case, and therefore it isn't possible. >>> >>> Another option which has been used in other projects (such as the Linux >>> kernel for code that was found to not be correctly licensed [contributed by >>> someone who didn't have the rights to do so]) is to remove that code & >>> rewrite it (although you have to be careful that is is done 'cleanly' to >>> stop claims that you just copied that bad code). At that point the >>> contributor's code is no more, so no permission is then needed. If 95% of >>> existing contributors agreed to relicense and/or assign copyright but there >>> was 5% who didn't agree or couldn't be contacted that would potentially be >>> an option - of course it could be very difficult/impossible if the remaining >>> code was something really core. >>> >>> -- >>> Stuart Clark >>> >>> -- >>> 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 [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-developers/ecc14b37981ae722f6b7ca74203c67b9%40Jahingo.com. >> >> -- >> Julien Pivotto >> @roidelapluie > > -- > 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 [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-developers/ZJ06UTRQbXt68fvx%40nixos. -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-developers/C491AED4-37EF-4A2D-A49E-ECFBCDF88F9F%40gmail.com.
