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by globular-toast 1889 days ago
What do you mean? Any free software licence allows forks, including AGPL.
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Yeah, that's pretty speculative to assume what would have been, but forking and improving/shifting direction of kibana would have been definitively possible from a license POV.

Their FAQ even says:

> I asked Torkel, and he said that If Kibana had been an AGPL project, Grafana would likely have been AGPL from day one.

https://grafana.com/blog/2021/04/20/qa-with-our-ceo-on-relic...