[openstack-dev] [monasca] License for monasca-statsd

Chuck Short chuck.short at canonical.com
Thu Nov 3 22:17:42 UTC 2016


On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 3:55 PM, Jeremy Stanley <fungi at yuggoth.org> wrote:

> On 2016-11-03 15:03:44 -0400 (-0400), Chuck Short wrote:
> > I was looking at packaging monasca-statsd since it is a dependency for
> > designate, however when I look at the license for it,it says Apache-2.
> > However the LICENSE file included in the source  is that the software is
> > provided as is...etc etc. Could we get some clarification please?
>
> It looks like https://review.openstack.org/123315 added that
> LICENSE file when originally setting up the monasca-statsd repo a
> couple years ago. I see a variety of Datadog repositories in
> circulation using that license, and they seem to refer to it as "a
> simplified BSD license" (which is certainly what it looks like to me
> as well). However, all the individual files added in that change
> which declare a license in their headers seem to use Apache License
> 2.0, which I agree is confusing. Hopefully the Datadog license was
> added here in error, and we've not actually been shipping an
> incorrectly-licensed derivative of their software this entire time?
> --
> Jeremy Stanley
>
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Hi,

I have checked the version on pypi and tarballs.openstack.org and all the
versions from monasca-statsd from 1.0.0 onwards provide the incorrect
LICENSE file.

chuck
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