[pve-devel] drbdmanage License change

[Brian ::]

basically we do not want that others (who have not contributed to the
development) act as parasites in our support business

Thats a bit strong !?

On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 9:07 AM, Dietmar Maurer <dietmar at proxmox.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We just want to inform you that Linbit changed the License
> for their 'drbdmanage' toolkit.
>
> The commit messages says ("Philipp Reisner"):
> ------------------
> basically we do not want that others (who have not contributed to the
> development) act as parasites in our support business
> ------------------
>
> The commit is here:
>
> http://git.drbd.org/drbdmanage.git/commitdiff/441dc6a96b0bc6a08d2469fa5a82d97fc08e8ec1
>
>
> The new License contains the following clause (3.4b):
>
> ------------------
> 3.4) Without prior written consent of LICENSOR or an authorized partner,
>  LICENSEE is not allowed to:
>
> b) provide commercial turn-key solutions based on the LICENSED SOFTWARE or
>  commercial services for the LICENSED SOFTWARE or its modifications to any
>  third party (e.g. software support or trainings).
> ------------------
>
> So we are basically forced to remove the package from our repository. We will
> also remove the included storage driver to make sure that we and our
> customers do not violate that license.
>
> Please contact Linbit if you want to use drbdmanage in future. They may
> provide all necessary packages.
>
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