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