From 5e268e1dfb6cf083f100df92afbc0a2904fa5bc0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?St=C3=A9phane=20Graber?= Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2023 22:50:12 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] README: Tweak section about Incus creation MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Signed-off-by: Stéphane Graber --- README.md | 12 +++++++----- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index cea638f1d90..32098c32448 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -14,14 +14,16 @@ You can try Incus online at: [`https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/try-it/`](https -## Fork of Canonical LXD -Incus, which is named after the [Cumulonimbus incus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumulonimbus_incus) or anvil cloud is a community fork of Canonical's LXD. +## Project history +Incus, which is named after the [Cumulonimbus incus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumulonimbus_incus) or anvil cloud +started as community fork of Canonical's LXD following [Canonical's takeover](https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/) of the LXD project from the +Linux Containers community. -This fork was made in response to [Canonical's takeover](https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/) of the LXD project from the Linux Containers community. +The project was then adopted by the Linux Containers community, taking back the spot left empty by LXD's departure. -The main aim of this fork is to provide once again a real community project where everyone's contributions are welcome and no one single commercial entity is in charge of the project. +Incus is a true open source community project, free of any CLA and remains released under the Apache 2.0 license. It's maintained by the same team of developers that first created LXD. -A migration tool called `lxd-to-incus` is provided to aid with migrating an existing LXD environment over to Incus. +LXD users wishing to migrate to Incus can easily do so through a migration tool called `lxd-to-incus`. ## Get started