Introduction The LXD team would like to announce the release of LXD 5.20! Thank you to everyone who contributed to this release! LXD change to AGPLv3 Canonical has decided to change the default contributions to the LXD project to AGPLv3 to align with our standard license for server-side code. All Canonical contributions have been relicensed and are now under AGPLv3. Community contributions remain under Apache 2.0. We follow the Software Freedom Law Center guidance in relation to this. Going ...
In short incus has Apache 2.0 copyright licene that states:
You may add Your own copyright statement to Your modifications and
may provide additional or different license terms and conditions
for use, reproduction, or distribution of Your modifications, or
for any such Derivative Works as a whole
While AGPL v3.0 that Canonical just adopted states:
You may convey a work based on the Program, or the modifications to produce it from the Program, in the form of source code under the terms of section 4, provided that you also meet all of these conditions:
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You must license the entire work, as a whole, under this License to anyone who comes into possession of a copy …
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.
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.