ruflin
commented
8 years ago @GrahamHannington Thanks for bringing this up. I added the LICENSE file here: https://github.com/elastic/beats-dashboards/pull/79
Closed GrahamHannington closed 8 years ago
ruflin
commented
8 years ago @GrahamHannington Thanks for bringing this up. I added the LICENSE file here: https://github.com/elastic/beats-dashboards/pull/79
In brief:
What type of software license applies to this elastic/beats-dashboard project? (Apache 2, like beats?) Could you please consider adding a license file to this project?
In detail:
I want to distribute Kibana dashboards - with their related visualization and search definitions - in a GitHub project.
In my GitHub project, I would like to include copies of the load.sh and load.ps1 files that are provided in beats-dashboards. In the absence of built-in support in Kibana for exporting and loading sets of related definitions - I'm familiar with the "per object type" export buttons on the Kibana 4.1 Settings > Objects page - these scripts look like a good option. (Nice one, thank you!)
However, I do not see a license specified for beats-dashboards. There's no license file in the root directory, and no mention of a license in the readme.
It occurs to me that you might have deliberately omitted specifying a license for this project because you consider it to be a "sub-project" of elastic/beats, which specifies the Apache 2 license. But I didn't feel comfortable making that assumption. I thought it more polite, and more prudent, to ask you directly: what is the beats-dashboards license? Would you consider adding a license file to this project? If it's Apache 2 or similar, then I can proceed with a clear conscience to redistribute those load scripts in my own project, according to the license conditions, such as including a copy of the original license citing Elasticsearch as the copyright owner.
FYI: my recent answer to a related question on Stack Overflow.