Open Stack

To be clear - any potential policy in this area we're talking about
would be an addition to the TC's requirements for new projects:

https://github.com/openstack/governance/blob/master/reference/incubation-integration-requirements

My hope is that members of this list can help inform whether catering
for this "AGPL fear" is a reasonable thing for the TC to do - i.e.
whether this legal risk aversion is in any way reasonable.

Mark.

On Thu, 2014-03-20 at 14:15 +0000, Radcliffe, Mark wrote:
> I agree with Richard that we should clarity on the policy and
> rationale. However, OpenStack Foundation has a fundamentally different
> strategy to ASF so I don't think that their approach has much
> relevance. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Fontana [mailto:rfontana at redhat.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 6:23 AM
> To: Mark McLoughlin
> Cc: legal-discuss at lists.openstack.org
> Subject: Re: [legal-discuss] [openstack-dev] [Marconi] Why is marconi a queue implementation vs a provisioning API?
> 
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 08:22:12AM +0000, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > I'm no fan (personally) of AGPLv3, but taking a stance that there must 
> > be a way of deploying OpenStack in production without requiring any
> > AGPLv3 code to be deployed is a significant policy decision for the 
> > project and I don't think we've ever articulated the reasons clearly 
> > for it.
> 
> Such a policy would be unprecedented for any Apache License 2.0 project as far as I am aware. For comparisons look at the legal policies of the Apache Software Foundation, which don't go this far.
> 
> I don't really care about the answer (as long as it doesn't create technical problems for OpenStack development and deployment -- unclear to me here) but I do care about the stated rationale. If the rationale is limited to something like 'the reality is that some users and Foundation members are sufficiently risk averse about AGPL that we feel we need to adopt this policy', so be it. 
> 
> - RF
> 
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