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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Comon Zane you know I make stuff up and I don’t know everything
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings">J</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri"> That’s why we have you for fact checking.
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings">J</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">-steve<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">From: </span>
</b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">Zane Bitter <zbitter@redhat.com><br>
<b>Organization: </b>Red Hat<br>
<b>Date: </b>Monday, November 7, 2016 at 7:47 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>"legal-discuss@lists.openstack.org" <legal-discuss@lists.openstack.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [legal-discuss] [tc][kolla] Ansible module with GPLv3<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">On 04/11/16 18:15, Steven Dake (stdake) wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">I **speculate** (definitely not an attorneyJ the rationale for this is<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">that pretty much everything implemented in Linux is tainted by a GPLv2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">or GPLv3 license because of a transitive dependency on kernel.org,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">glibc, kernel headers, gcc, libpython, and pretty much the whole<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">operating system on which OpenStack runs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">Getting off topic here, but for the record:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">* The kernel license explicitly disclaims that userspace programs are
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">derivative works:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"><a href="https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/COPYING#n2">https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/COPYING#n2</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">* glibc is LGPL, so unless you statically link to libc (which ~nobody
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">does) then there isn't an issue:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"><a href="https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=COPYING.LIB">https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=COPYING.LIB</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">* Python is not GPL at all:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"><a href="https://docs.python.org/3/license.html#psf-license-agreement-for-python-release">https://docs.python.org/3/license.html#psf-license-agreement-for-python-release</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">Zane.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">legal-discuss mailing list<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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