Open Source Licensing & Relicensing

[hhrutter]

Suggestion for a Changelog episode:
An interesting show would be to cover real world use cases about licensing strategies and how they worked out. Changing a license (eg. MIT to Apache) and overcoming the obstacles involved is an interesting topic as well.

[jerodsanto]

@hhrutter this could potentially make an interesting show, I agree. Do you know of any projects that have undergone this change that we could highlight and interview?

[hhrutter]

Sorry I was hoping you guys have some experts on your short list maybe from the Request for Commits days.

This issue came up when I started tinkering about the steps, notifications and ramifications involved if I move pdfcpu from MIT to Apache 2.0 and it is about the patent grant. The rumour goes that even though MIT does not explicitly provide a patent grant (like Apache 2.0) it does so implicitly as mentioned here and that causes confusion.

[vespertilian]

@jerodsanto @hhrutter

This open source Graph DB project I have been using has been changing up it's licence from Apache to AGPL to Common Clause and Back to Apache in the last 3-6 months.

https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/common-clause-on-license-dgraph-is-not-open-source/3167

Maybe you could have them on the show.

Also the DB is cool, and open source. So I think you should have them on anyway.

[jerodsanto]

@vespertilian looks like a good candidate. Who would be the main/best person to talk to about graph?

[vespertilian]

@jerodsanto

Manish R Jain, the founder is who I would approch.
https://github.com/manishrjain

You could try to reach out via the forum.
https://discuss.dgraph.io

I could post on the forum if you like as well. Just let me know.

ps. Thanks for all your hard work on the show!

[jerodsanto]

Went ahead and invited them via GH issues: dgraph-io/dgraph#2661

Thanks for the suggestion(s)!

[jerodsanto]

This episode is now live! Thanks again, all 💚

https://changelog.com/podcast/322

[hhrutter]

Awesome!

[vespertilian]

Great episode! Just listened to it.