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Canonical changes the license of LXD to AGPL
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This incus? https://github.com/lxc/incus I don't understand
Yes but I don't know what you don't understand. One-directional flow of FLOSS licenses?
Projects which choose BSD/Apache type licences do so fully in the knowledge that their code may be incorporated into projects with different licences. That's literally the point: it's considered a feature of the licence. These projects are explicitly OK with their code going proprietary, for example. If they weren't OK with it, they'd use a GPL-type copyleft licence instead, as that's conversely the literal point of those licences.
Being mad about your Apache code being incorporated into a GPL project would make no sense, and certainly wouldn't garner any sympathy from most people in the FOSS community.
Yes and by not continuing that licensing but instead adopting AGPL+CLA Canonical create their usual one way street.
Its not a one way street but this makes more libre thing. Canonical didnt make it proprietary to create a one way street but made it more libre by adopting AGPL license which gives users more rights to the code
Why is there still a CLA that allows them and only them to sell proprietary versions then? Don't fall for Canonical's PR bullshit.
Read https://github.com/canonical/lxd/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#license-and-copyright
Could you expand on that? What is it that makes that possible?
In short incus has Apache 2.0 copyright licene that states:
While AGPL v3.0 that Canonical just adopted states:
. . .
Meaning if incus uses any part of Canonicals source their code can't be licenced under Apache but rather AGPL v3.0, which pulls any other derivative of incus.
That's very informative, thank you.