Ask HN: Apache-2.0 or LGPL-3.0?

9 points by louis_w_gk 2y ago ↗ HN

The most common license in the Cloud Native space is Apache 2.0. Our current Open Source Tool is licensed under LGPL-3.0.

Should we change the license to Apache 2.0? - yes (if yes, why) - no - doesn't matter at this point

Thanks!

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This is the project in case that matters: https://github.com/glasskube/operator

Apache will allow some more uses than LGPL, which is why I prefer the former.

So that's a vote for yes.

check out the "Choose an open source license" website [1]

That website only covers a small subset of free licenses though.

This is MIT[1] licensed, if anybody finds _that_ interesting :P Also, by github[2]

See tl;drLegal[3] by FOSSA, though that site stinks -- go to the blog.

nit: Why the heck can't I swipe select the text on top??

I'm also going to use this opportunity to not say anything about the EPL or MPL. Bye!

I think I'd go with Apache. There's still some amount of GPL-phobia regardless of whether or not that's actually warranted.

Can you give the reasons why you chose the LGPL-3.0? Did you consider the AGPLv3 too?

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