<div dir="ltr">It's a soft dependency, like most of the vendor specific dependencies - you only need them if you're using a specific backend. We've loads of them in cinder, under a whole bunch of licenses. There was a summit session discussing it that didn't come to any firm conclusions.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 12 December 2016 at 10:52, Thierry Carrez <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thierry@openstack.org" target="_blank">thierry@openstack.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">Mehdi Abaakouk wrote:<br>
> I have recently seen that drbdmanage python library is no more GPL2 but<br>
> need a end user license agreement [1].<br>
> Is this compatible with the driver policy of Cinder ?<br>
<br>
</span>It's not acceptable as a dependency of an OpenStack project (be it GPLv2<br>
or using a custom EULA), see:<br>
<br>
<a href="https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/licensing.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://governance.openstack.<wbr>org/tc/reference/licensing.<wbr>html</a><br>
<br>
That said, it doesn't seem to be listed as a Cinder requirement right<br>
now ? Is it a new dependency being considered, or is it currently flying<br>
under the radar ?<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
--<br>
Thierry Carrez (ttx)<br>
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