[openstack-dev] [all] [tc] "No Open Core" in 2016
Thierry Carrez
thierry at openstack.org
Fri Feb 5 16:44:27 UTC 2016
Dean Troyer wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 4:57 AM, Thierry Carrez <thierry at openstack.org
> <mailto:thierry at openstack.org>> wrote:
>
>> My personal take on that is that we can draw a line in the sand for
>> what is acceptable as an official project in the upstream OpenStack
>> open source effort. It should have a fully-functional,
>> production-grade open source implementation. If you need proprietary
>> software or a commercial entity to fully use the functionality of a
>> project or getting serious about it, then it should not be accepted
>> in OpenStack as an official project. It can still live as a
>> non-official project and even be hosted under OpenStack
>> infrastructure, but it should not be part of "OpenStack". That is
>> how I would interpret "no open core" in OpenStack 2016.
>
> Should we host projects that have no hope of becoming official projects
> due to this sort of criteria? Would we host GPL-only projects under
> openstack/?
The answer to that lives at:
http://governance.openstack.org/reference/licensing.html
--
Thierry Carrez (ttx)
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