Copyright ownership / licensing clarification

[Colin]

Closing in favor of:

A New Sonar License for SonarQube Analyzers

Hi Fabrice – Hello! I’m a big fan of SonarQube and have a clarifying question about copyright and licensing. The context is that I have been working on a project which allows for Sonar’s open source analyzers to be run as a CLI, licensed this under the LGPL. I was surprised to see the recent announcement about re-licensing the analyzers from the LGPL license to a license written by Sonar. My understanding is that the analyzers have been a LGPL work with many copyright owners beyond Sonar the …