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[GH Request] Change openedx-events library license #826

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felipemontoya opened this issue Jul 18, 2023 · 4 comments
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[GH Request] Change openedx-events library license #826

felipemontoya opened this issue Jul 18, 2023 · 4 comments
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github-request Request for change to access level or settings in the openedx GitHub organization. medium urgency - by end of sprint this is urgent but can be balanced against other priorities in this sprint

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Change the license of openedx-events from AGLP V3 to Apache 2.0.

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2 different members of 2U have requested that we change the AGPL V3 license of the openedx-events repository to something that allows having private repos with a dependency on openedx-events.

The issue were the conversation is happening: openedx/openedx-events#184.

Drawing from previous experience in this project the xblock library was licensed as Apache 2.0 I believe for this same reason.

I believe this decision should apply to openedx-filters as well, but I understand if they need to be made separately.

Finally, as co-author of the library, I should state my personal opinion on the matter. I think given that openedx-events are the gateway to event bus which already separates different pieces of running code neatly, there is already a hard API there that could be leveraged through many workarounds to keep code private and not have a dependency on openedx-events. It is not a matter of the license not allowing developers to use events this way, but more like officially validating this option.
I'd would like to see more organizations collaborating on the core and having more and better defined events. I don't mind that implementations of what is done after the event propagates can remain private. History on this project has shown that is is not the publication of the code, but the documentation, maintenance and ongoing on-boarding of new comers what makes a package valuable.
@felipemontoya felipemontoya added the github-request Request for change to access level or settings in the openedx GitHub organization. label Jul 18, 2023
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@arbrandes arbrandes self-assigned this Jul 18, 2023
@arbrandes arbrandes moved this from Backlog to To Do in Axim Engineering Tasks Jul 18, 2023
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@arbrandes arbrandes added the medium urgency - by end of sprint this is urgent but can be balanced against other priorities in this sprint label Jul 18, 2023
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bmtcril commented Jul 18, 2023

@arbrandes I can take this one if you like, since I've been on it for a bit. It's just waiting on legal to get back from PTO to get an official resolution.

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Alright, thank you @bmtcril! I'm reassigning it to you.

@arbrandes arbrandes assigned bmtcril and unassigned arbrandes Jul 19, 2023
bmtcril added a commit to openedx/openedx-events that referenced this issue Aug 15, 2023
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chore: Re-license repository to Apache 2.0
2ee9379 
Per issue #184 and
openedx/axim-engineering#826 and
with input from Axim and 2U legal we are re-licensing this code
and package to more explicitly allow private plug-in functionality
on top of it.
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bmtcril commented Aug 15, 2023

This should be resolved with openedx/openedx-events#258 . I'll close this when that merges.

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