I'm interested in deltacloud but I got stumped by the following statement on the deltacloud.org front page: "Deltacloud API and Portal are free and open source (LGPL, GPL)". Could someone explain this? I looked at the API definition http://deltacloud.org/api.html and I don't see any mention of license there. What is licensed around deltacloud and what is the status of the API and API definitions? Thanks, Thorsten - CTO RightScale
2009/11/13 Thorsten von Eicken tve@rightscale.com:
I'm interested in deltacloud but I got stumped by the following statement on the deltacloud.org front page: "Deltacloud API and Portal are free and open source (LGPL, GPL)". Could someone explain this? I looked at the API definition http://deltacloud.org/api.html and I don't see any mention of license there. What is licensed around deltacloud and what is the status of the API and API definitions? Thanks, Thorsten - CTO RightScale
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Thats a good question and I cant find any GPL or LGPL headers anywhere, apart from in Portal in the COPYING file (which I thought was a requirement of the GPL).
Ivan RimuHosting
On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 00:16 -0800, Thorsten von Eicken wrote:
I'm interested in deltacloud but I got stumped by the following statement on the deltacloud.org front page: "Deltacloud API and Portal are free and open source (LGPL, GPL)". Could someone explain this? I looked at the API definition http://deltacloud.org/api.html and I don't see any mention of license there. What is licensed around deltacloud and what is the status of the API and API definitions? Thanks, Thorsten - CTO RightScale
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Thorsten, You are correct, that is not very clear on the site. The portal is GPL(v2) and everything else (framework, drivers, client-ruby) are LGPLv2.1.
I am about to send a series of patches updating the code and adding the COPYING file as appropriate, so the codebases should be correct by sometime monday.
-j
what about for people implementing the API directly - ie not using any code from deltacloud.org - what would apply to them?
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Jason Guiditta jguiditt@redhat.com wrote:
On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 00:16 -0800, Thorsten von Eicken wrote:
I'm interested in deltacloud but I got stumped by the following statement on the deltacloud.org front page: "Deltacloud API and Portal are free and open source (LGPL, GPL)". Could someone explain this? I looked at the API definition http://deltacloud.org/api.html and I don't see any mention of license there. What is licensed around deltacloud and what is the status of the API and API definitions? Thanks, Thorsten - CTO RightScale
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Thorsten, You are correct, that is not very clear on the site. The portal is GPL(v2) and everything else (framework, drivers, client-ruby) are LGPLv2.1.
I am about to send a series of patches updating the code and adding the COPYING file as appropriate, so the codebases should be correct by sometime monday.
-j
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I think the API described in prose, both normative and non-normative should be under some Open Document License or Creative Commons.
Implementations based upon those specs should be free to license themselves entirely however they want, with no further restrictions.
Perhaps (and talk to Legal), we need a restriction on "Deltacloud" as a trademark to implementations that have passed some TCK (currently non-existant). Otherwise, they can't say "Deltacloud-REST API" on the tin. That's the Sun(R)/Java Way(tm) of controlling IP.
So, I think we need a TCK.
-Bob
On Nov 13, 2009, at 5:04 PM, Jason Guiditta wrote:
On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 08:50 +1100, Michael Neale wrote:
what about for people implementing the API directly - ie not using any code from deltacloud.org - what would apply to them?
Not sure, think Hugh or maybe Bob would have to answer that one.
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