Changing Hypertable license to GPLv3

[Doug Judd]

Hypertable is currently licensed under GPLv2.  We're planning to change to GPLv3.  This license is similar to v2 except that it contains protection against "Tivoization" and Discriminatory patent deals (see A Quick Guide to GPLv3).    If this causes a problem for any of you, please let us know.

- Doug

[Doug Judd]

Hi Joe,

If you're going to ship Hypertable as part of a closed-source product, you'll need to make any modification to Hypertable "per-se" open source.  In other words, all of the porting work you've done will need to be made open source.  As far as application code goes, here is our policy:

1. If you're building a non-database application, then we do not consider that to be an extension of Hypertable and therefore you can ship your product close-sourced without fear of GPL violation.

2. If you're building a database application (e.g. FonzyDB) then we do consider that an extension of Hypertable and you'll need to obtain a commercial license from Hypertable, Inc.

- Doug

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 5:19 AM, Fonzy <joem...@gmail.com> wrote:

Doug,

If we compile against your libraries does this mean we will have to make our source code available as well?  We would like to keep our code proprietary, is the only way to do this to use the Thrift method for connection?

Thanks,

On Friday, January 6, 2012 2:24:15 AM UTC-5, Doug Judd wrote:

Hypertable is currently licensed under GPLv2.  We're planning to change to GPLv3.  This license is similar to v2 except that it contains protection against "Tivoization" and Discriminatory patent deals (see A Quick Guide to GPLv3).    If this causes a problem for any of you, please let us know.

- Doug

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Doug Judd

CEO, Hypertable Inc.