Use of Jujucharms to launch non-opensource code

Mark Shuttleworth mark at ubuntu.com
Tue Feb 9 11:38:39 UTC 2016


On 09/02/16 09:25, John Meinel wrote:
> The more edge case is that charmhelpers itself is AGPL, so if your charm
> imported charmhelpers, then that is more of a grey area. You likely need to
> open source the actual charm, which sets up configuration, etc of the
> program. However, you still don't have to give out the source to the
> program you are configuring.

For stuff that we publish as libraries, we tend to prefer LGPL, which
doesn't force a license on the end product or codebase. So if we need to
revisit the charmhelpers license we will do so.

Mark




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