Open Stack

On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 10:01:13AM -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:
> On 06/14/2014 09:55 PM, Richard Fontana wrote:
> 
> >I don't think Chris Friesen's question is an OpenStack project
> >question, since the issue he's worried about results from his own
> >discretionary choices downstream, if I understand everything correctly
> >here.
> 
> While true that downstream choices are involved, I think it would be
> beneficial to the OpenStack project to clearly highlight any legal issues
> around the use of various sub-components.  Given that OpenStack itself is
> Apache-licensed, someone could easily miss the fact that it uses
> sub-components with other licensing.

But Monty said "We don't use mysql-python itself. We use sqlalchemy
..." and sqlalchemy is more permissively licensed than OpenStack
itself.

Aren't the range of 'legal issues' around downstream use of OpenStack
along with sqlalchemy effectively unlimited? That's basically my
point. 

- RF