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Pending submission by SNAPI_Test at 2019-10-06 13:43:53
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Title: Caddy Proposal: Permanently Change All Proprietary Licensing To Open Source

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We (Light Code Labs in partnership with Ardan Labs) have decided that we would like to make all Caddy code open source and permanently remove all proprietary licensing within the project, effective as soon as this proposal is accepted.

We would like the community's feedback on these plans, which are as follows:

With regards to the website, our plans are:

With Ardan Labs as our official partner for the Caddy project, we are ready to support the enterprise use cases. Ardan Labs is world-renowned for their Go training and support in the enterprise setting. We are confident that businesses will love using Caddy 2 once they try it, and we look forward to supporting their production use cases.

Our plans for businesses are:

With regards to Caddy v2, our plans are:

We want the world to know that Caddy:

We hope these changes will make this vision for the new Caddy project a reality.

What do you think?

Please submit your votes and feedback in this issue, and share it as widely as you can because this is the culmination of many years' efforts from ourselves and many of you! Thank you to everyone involved!

Hi,

Congratulations on your partnership with Ardan Labs. This seems like a great fit for you, your company, Caddy, and the greater Caddy community. Really awesome to see the eagerness of wanting to completely open source Caddy and the timetable of releases of caddy v2.

In an effort to tell the world about all of this, I'd recommend another FLOSS Weekly interview. You were last on November 2015! https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/364 [twit.tv] So long ago.

Since I am not an enterprise user of Caddy, I have no objections to your proposal and I'm anxious to see what's next for you.

This is great and I commend you on the effort. My only question would be why not take it the extra step and put Caddy into the Apache Incubator? That way it would exist in a trusted non-profit that has a proven track record at fostering open source communities.

They also have some experience with HTTP servers I've heard...

This was my major concern before digging into caddy. This is a yes from me.

This is great. I have had a number of clients wave off and not use Caddy simply because it wasn't fully open source. This is an excellent turn of events.

Thank you !

Thats a yes from me

Wow! This is excellent news! This will certainly help increase adoption. 👍

It will help increase adoption.

This is fantastic news @mholt [github.com]. Congratulations, looking forward to all this.

Thank you everyone, for your feedback so far -- we are reading all of it.

In an effort to tell the world about all of this, I'd recommend another FLOSS Weekly interview. You were last on November 2015! https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/364 [twit.tv] So long ago.

Yes, we'd love to go on. I would love it if @ardan-bkennedy [github.com] would go on with me.

My only question would be why not take it the extra step and put Caddy into the Apache Incubator?

We can look into it.

It seems like this proposal will overwhelmingly pass. Our immediate focus will be getting the website updated along with accelerating v2 development.

By the way, if you're just joining us, have a look at what v2 has to offer here: https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/tree/v2 [github.com] with docs here ("Version 2" pages): https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/wiki#version-2 [github.com] -- We fully expect that v2 will be competitive replacement for other web servers/proxies as it reaches maturity, with all the added benefits Caddy has to offer.

So please, try out v2 as soon as you are able, and get involved with your feedback, issues, pull requests -- the sooner we can spread out more of this to the community, the faster it will come together and the better it will be. Plus, it'll be fun.

Out of curiosity, what prompted this change of focus? 😄

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