Moving KubeDiagrams to Apache License 2.0

[philippemerle]

Hi @mahyarmirrashed, @adamab48, @rssnyder, @mattfield, @QuadmanSWE, @himslm01, anybody reading this post,
I am contacting you as contributors to KubeDiagrams. Thank you again for your great contributions helping to a better adoption of KubeDiagrams. As you know, KubeDiagrams is becoming increasingly popular with 900+ stars on GitHub, 4.94k+ downloads on PyPI, 780+ pulls on DockerHub, some amazing and spontaneous blogs on the net, many social networks posts, and so on. I am impressed with all this in less than 6 months! Now I dream of going even further than that and making KubeDiagrams one of the tools used by all Kubernetes practitioners like kubectl is. We could aim for KubeDiagrams to become an official Cloud Native Computing Foundation project, and for all Kubernetes-based projects around the world to use it to document their K8s manifests and Helm charts. But to realize such a dream, it is necessary to change the open source license of KubeDiagrams from GPL-3.0 to Apache License 2.0, the license recommended by CNCF. Have a look to https://www.reddit.com/r/kubernetes/comments/1k184xj/custom_declarative_diagrams_with_kubediagrams/ where there is a discussion about the open source license of KubeDiagrams. I discussed my Inria employer and it agrees to change the license of KubeDiagrams in order to maximize its word-wide impact. So, I plan to move KubeDiagrams to Apache License 2.0 as soon as possible, certainly during summer 2025. As your contributions were done under GPL-3.0, I need to have your formal approbation to move your contributions under Apache License 2.0. So the question for each of you is simple: Do you agree or not to move your contributions under Apache License 2.0? If you agree with this license move then your contributions will automatically move to Apache License 2.0. If you don't agree with the move then your contributions will stay under GPL-3.0 but will not be present in KubeDiagrams under Apache License 2.0. Please reply formally in this discussion thread.

[QuadmanSWE]

You have my approval, and my full trust and support.

Kube diagrams is awesome and I am proud to have had the chance to contribute.

//David 'Quadman' Söderlund

[mattfield]

Approved from my side, and all the best!

[mahyarmirrashed]

You have my approval as well! Great to hear all the good news! 👍👍

[himslm01]

You have my approval. Keep up the good work.

On 31 May 2025 17:47:26 BST, Philippe Merle ***@***.***> wrote: Hi @mahyarmirrashed, @adamab48, @rssnyder, @mattfield, @QuadmanSWE, @himslm01, anybody reading this post, I am contacting you as contributors to KubeDiagrams. Thank you again for your great contributions helping to a better adoption of KubeDiagrams. As you know, KubeDiagrams is becoming increasingly popular with 900+ stars on GitHub, 4.94k+ downloads on PyPI, 780+ pulls on DockerHub, some amazing and spontaneous blogs on the net, many social networks posts, and so on. I am impressed with all this in less than 6 months! Now I dream of going even further than that and making KubeDiagrams one of the tools used by all Kubernetes practitioners like kubectl is. We could aim for KubeDiagrams to become an official Cloud Native Computing Foundation project, and for all Kubernetes-based projects around the world to use it to document their K8s manifests and Helm charts. But to realize such a dream, it is necessary to change the open source license of KubeDiagrams from GPL-3.0 to Apache License 2.0, the license recommended by CNCF. Have a look to https://www.reddit.com/r/kubernetes/comments/1k184xj/custom_declarative_diagrams_with_kubediagrams/ where there is a discussion about the open source license of KubeDiagrams. I discussed my Inria employer and it agrees to change the license of KubeDiagrams in order to maximize its word-wide impact. So, I plan to move KubeDiagrams to Apache License 2.0 as soon as possible, certainly during summer 2025. As your contributions were done under GPL-3.0, I need to have your formal approbation to move your contributions under Apache License 2.0. So the question for each of you is simple: Do you agree or not to move your contributions under Apache License 2.0? If you agree with this license move then your contributions will automatically move to Apache License 2.0. If you don't agree with the move then your contributions will stay under GPL-3.0 but will not be present in KubeDiagrams under Apache License 2.0. Please reply formally in this discussion thread. -- Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: #37 You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Message ID: ***@***.***>

-- Mark Himsley

[aabichou]

Approved on my end keep up the good work and good luck !

[philippemerle]

Thank you @mahyarmirrashed, @adamab48, @mattfield, @QuadmanSWE and @himslm01 for your approbation.

@rssnyder any thought?

[rssnyder]

No issues here!

[philippemerle]

Thank you all @mahyarmirrashed, @adamab48, @mattfield, @QuadmanSWE, @himslm01 and @rssnyder for your approbation. Now KubeDiagrams is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License.