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Quoting from an RFD co-authored by bcantrill and myself describing Oxide's policies around open source: > For any new Oxide-created software, the MPL 2.0 shoul

Quoting from an RFD co-authored by bcantrill and myself describing Oxide's policies around open source: > For any new Oxide-created software, the MPL 2.0 should generally be the license of choice. The exception to this should be any software that is a part of a larger ecosystem that has a prevailing license, in which case that prevailing license may be used. EDIT: I also am confused about why you are downvoted. Are there any major operating systems distributions that are MPL licensed? I can't think of any off the top of my head. Beyond that it's a simple question.

alberth 3y ago
> [if Oxide-created software] is a part of a larger ecosystem that has a prevailing license, in which case that prevailing license may be used How does that work if the prevailing is BSD/MIT/ISC? You're saying that Oxide can then be licensed under BSD/MIT/ISC?
- steveklabnik 3y ago
  So I decided to cut off my quote but the next line has the answer: > For example, Rust crates are generally dual-licensed as MIT/Apache 2. We often produce components that we share with the broader open source world. For example, dropshot[1] is our in-house web framework, but we publish it as a standalone package. It is licensed under Apache-2.0 instead of MPL 2.0 because the norm in the Rust ecosystem is Apache and not MPL. > You're saying that Oxide can then be licensed under BSD/MIT/ISC? I am saying that we do not have one single license across the company. Some components are probably BSD/MIT/ISC licensed somewhere, and I guarantee that some third party dependencies we use are licensed under those licenses. That's different from "you could choose to take it under BSD," which I didn't mean to imply, sorry about that! 1: https://crates.io/crates/dropshot https://crates.io/crates/dropshot
cosmic_quanta 3y ago
I had to look up RFD, and I like the idea! https://oxide.computer/blog/rfd-1-requests-for-discussion https://oxide.computer/blog/rfd-1-requests-for-discussion
- steveklabnik 3y ago
  Ah thanks! Yeah I should have mentioned this in my comment, thank you for adding the context. By the way, you can browse public RFDs here: https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/ https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/ I didn't include any links to any RFDs in my comments today because I have only been referencing non-public ones.

alberth 3y ago

> [if Oxide-created software] is a part of a larger ecosystem that has a prevailing license, in which case that prevailing license may be used How does that work if the prevailing is BSD/MIT/ISC? You're saying that Oxide can then be licensed under BSD/MIT/ISC?

steveklabnik 3y ago
So I decided to cut off my quote but the next line has the answer: > For example, Rust crates are generally dual-licensed as MIT/Apache 2. We often produce components that we share with the broader open source world. For example, dropshot[1] is our in-house web framework, but we publish it as a standalone package. It is licensed under Apache-2.0 instead of MPL 2.0 because the norm in the Rust ecosystem is Apache and not MPL. > You're saying that Oxide can then be licensed under BSD/MIT/ISC? I am saying that we do not have one single license across the company. Some components are probably BSD/MIT/ISC licensed somewhere, and I guarantee that some third party dependencies we use are licensed under those licenses. That's different from "you could choose to take it under BSD," which I didn't mean to imply, sorry about that! 1: https://crates.io/crates/dropshot https://crates.io/crates/dropshot

cosmic_quanta 3y ago

I had to look up RFD, and I like the idea! https://oxide.computer/blog/rfd-1-requests-for-discussion https://oxide.computer/blog/rfd-1-requests-for-discussion

steveklabnik 3y ago
Ah thanks! Yeah I should have mentioned this in my comment, thank you for adding the context. By the way, you can browse public RFDs here: https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/ https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/ I didn't include any links to any RFDs in my comments today because I have only been referencing non-public ones.