Re: [monit-dev] Monit source code repository and issue tracker - fork ahoy!

[Jan-Henrik Haukeland]

On 06 Feb 2014, at 21:21, Sergey B Kirpichev <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 08:51:26PM +0100, Jan-Henrik Haukeland wrote:
>> We prefer not too as the bureaucracy would be hopeless in the future
>> if we should want to switch license.
> 
> GPL doesn't prevent you from license switch (to something
> compatible).  

The problem is more of a practical nature. To switch license we will have track 
down and ask one and every contributor if it is okay to do so. This is 
basically impossible over years and you end up with a situation like Drupal 
cannot include Bootstrap. This can be avoided if contributors allow their work 
to be included under a CC0 license.

> But in this way your contributors can be sure that this project will stay 
> open.

If we allow someone to contribute under a GPL license it can prevent us from 
doing what MySQL did. That is, dual license Monit with a commercial license as 
well as a GPL license. We want to improve Monit considerably and have some 
pretty cool plans, but it will require lots of work. I’m not saying we will, 
but dual license Monit is one option to fund this work together with the modest 
income from M/Monit.

Or put another way, are you are willing to work on Monit 8 hours a day for 6 
months for free. Because this is the amount of work required to bring Monit up 
to the level we want it to be.