Canonical released the code behind Launchpad.net today

Today, Canonical released Launchpad, their collaboration and code hosting platform for software projects as free and open source software. They choose AGLPv3 as software license, which allows everyone to use the software for private or business matters, as long as they allow others to get the (changed) code as well.

Installation was pretty forward, only a small bug prevented me to install it right away. Thanks to the launchpad developers, the bug was fixed within minutes. Additional to that, the installer didn't agree with my PostgreSQL setup, so I needed to change that as well. Fortunately, there's a really great Howto on that matter as well.

Congratulations to the Launchpad developers, they did great work on that piece of software.

It seems all modules of Launchpad are open sourced. So I'd like to pass a big thank you to Mark Shuttleworth. This is a great contribution of Canonical to the open software community.