Launchpad Available As Free Software
Today Launchpad source code has been made available as free/open source software under the GNU AGPLv3. This is a very exciting day for those of us working on Launchpad. I am quite proud that I was actually awake last night when the announcement appeared.
I noticed Jono Lange changed the topic in #launchpad on irc.freenode.net somewhere near midnight my local time. Almost immediately after, I found Karl Fogel's email to our Launchpad list announcing the open sourcing. I'm generally in bed that late; however, I was trying to get a merge proposal submitted before I went to bed, and then, I had some hacking to do on a personal project I'm working on. I am glad circumstances contributed to my being awake when the moment of open sourcing came.
I would really encourage any free/open source developer to look closely at Launchpad for project hosting (or just code hosting, bug tracking, mailing lists, etc. or any combination thereof). The code is freely available, and you'll find a group of developers at Canonical who are excited about seeing Launchpad succeed as both a great collaboration platform and a free software project itself.
Posted by deryck on July 21, 2009
