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It appears that Nexenta's edgefs code was open source under an Apache 2.0 license at least as far back as 2020-03-12: https://web.archive.org/web/2020031216592
by jka 7y ago
It appears that Nexenta's edgefs code was open source under an Apache 2.0 license at least as far back as 2020-03-12:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200312165928/https://github.com/Nexenta/edgefs https://web.archive.org/web/20200312165928/https://github.co...
... and probably further back too - here's an HN post referencing the licensing from around Q3 2019:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20671417 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20671417
I hadn't heard of DataDirect Networks before; it looks like their acquisition of Nexenta closed in May 2019:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/05/07/ddn_is_buying_nexenta/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/05/07/ddn_is_buying_nexen...
"Nexenta by DDN will be run as a separate entity, retaining its own sales and engineering teams. The Nexenta sales people now get a wider DDN channel to use and there are cross-selling opportunities for both."
As far as I understand -- I'm not a lawyer -- changing a license requires that existing contributors are notified and agree to the change of licensing.
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/55326/can-you-change-a-license-once-you-pick-one https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/5532...
- pas 7y ago> As far as I understand -- I'm not a lawyer -- changing a license requires that existing contributors are notified and agree to the change of licensing. Not the contributors, but the copyright holders. That's why usually projects require a CLA (Contributor License Agreement) to be signed, so they get the copyrights (or they get the rights to relicense the work).
- jka 7y agoThanks for the clarification, that makes sense.