Grafana, Loki, and Tempo will be relicensed to AGPLv3

Grafana Labs, founded in 2014 to support the open-source Grafana project, has decided to relicense its core projects—Grafana, Grafana Loki, and Grafana Tempo—from the Apache License 2.0 to the Affero General Public License (AGPL) v3. This decision follows a trend among other open-source companies to adopt more restrictive licenses to balance open-source community values with monetization strategies. The AGPLv3, an OSI-approved license, maintains the freedoms of free and open-source software while requiring users to share source code if they modify and distribute it, encouraging contributions back to the community. Although AGPL offers less protection than other licenses, Grafana Labs believes it strikes the right balance in fostering a stronger community. Additionally, a new contributor license agreement based on the Apache Software Foundation's CLA has been adopted to clearly outline the terms between contributors and Grafana Labs.

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