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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Define “touching GPLv3 code”. If you mean using someone else’s work which creates a derived work, that is a big no-no. This would cause your CL<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">If it’s a fresh implementation, then
<b>USE</b> ASL2.0. This creates a transitive dependency that taints the module on instantiation, however, since we use Ansible via popen rather than an import ansible line in our python code, the module taints as GPLv3 (even though the module may be licensed
under ASL 2.0). This does not run afoul of the GPLv3.<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">Michał Jastrzębski <inc007@gmail.com></span><span style="font-family:PMingLiU;color:black"><br>
</span><b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">Reply-To: </span></b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">"OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org><br>
<b>Date: </b>Friday, November 4, 2016 at 9:42 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>"OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[openstack-dev] [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">Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">As you could see in [1], ansible is notorious with it's GPL v3<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">license. I have question about having single module in Kolla-ansible<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">project that will be GPL v3.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">Kolla is licensed as Apache v2 all across the board today. To<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">implement one of highly requested features we would need to develop<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">so-called strategy plugin for ansible, and I can't see any reasonable<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">way to do it without touching GPL v3 code.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">While I wouldn't mind having single GPL v3 licensed module in Kolla,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">and this particular use case doesn't seem to affect licensing of other<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">parts of our project, I would like to ask for second opinion before we<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">run into legal issues.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">[1]
<a href="http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2016-May/095489.html">
http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2016-May/095489.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="mailto:OpenStack-dev-request@lists.openstack.org">OpenStack-dev-request@lists.openstack.org</a>?subject:unsubscribe<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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