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LXD has changed its licencing model to AGPLv3 #28

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dionysius opened this issue Jan 12, 2024 · 0 comments
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LXD has changed its licencing model to AGPLv3 #28

dionysius opened this issue Jan 12, 2024 · 0 comments

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dionysius commented Jan 12, 2024

https://stgraber.org/2023/12/12/lxd-now-re-licensed-and-under-a-cla/

Impact to downstreams (consumer of LXD Go packages)
Up until now, all the Go packages of LXD were under the Apache 2.0 license, that was fitting quite well in the Go ecosystem where the Apache 2.0, BSDs and MIT licenses are very popular.

Now with this change, you need to realize that you may start to include/bundle AGPLv3 code within your own project. This a copyleft license and so may require re-licensing of your own project to comply with it.

Again, this is quite the can of worms, with my usual recommendation being “stay away”, but if you must use any of LXD’s Go packages, I’d strongly recommend talking to a lawyer to fully understand your exposure to that new license.

LXE is using the go-client package to interact with lxd and thus is impacted by this change.

@dionysius dionysius changed the title LXD has changed its licencing model LXD has changed its licencing model to AGPLv3 Jan 12, 2024
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