https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2357266



--- Comment #13 from Bryn M. Reeves <[email protected]> ---
I've given this a lot of thought over the weekend, both around how these
projects fit into the overall Python ecosystem, as well as reading resources
from both Apache and the FSF on the topic of license compatibility.

These projects (snapm and boom-boot) were historically licensed under the GPL
because despite being original code bases they originated in GPL-licensed
projects (a subpackage of lvm2 in the case of boom, and then smapm followed
that pattern). On reflection, I no longer think that being licensed under the
GPL is adding any value to these projects, and actually makes it harder to
consume and re-use these components.

A small part of snapm (the plugin loader) was originally derived from the sos
project: https://github.com/sosreport/sos/

I filed a PR yesterday to rewrite this part of snapm:
https://github.com/snapshotmanager/snapm/pull/195 - this deletes the last
remnant of 3rd party code in the tree.

I'm proposing to re-license both projects (boom-boot and snapm) under the
Apache-2.0 license. Further explanation and discussion of the change can be
found in the upstream issues:

  https://github.com/snapshotmanager/snapm/issues/205
  https://github.com/snapshotmanager/boom-boot/issues/120

I think this is a positive change that simplifies life for users, developers,
and maintainers - we will issue new releases soon with the re-licensing change
included assuming that no objections are raised.


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