Comon Zane you know I make stuff up and I don’t know everything J  That’s why we have you for fact checking. J

 

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#n2

 

* 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-release

 

cheers,

Zane.

 

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