[legal-discuss] AGPLv3+ acceptable for third party dependencies?

Radcliffe, Mark Mark.Radcliffe at dlapiper.com
Wed Nov 9 22:19:22 UTC 2016


Yes not acceptable 

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> On Nov 9, 2016, at 11:53 AM, Ade Lee <alee at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Just a quick question:
> 
> Is AGPLv3+ an acceptable license for a third party library that is a
> dependency for an Openstack project?
> 
> I read: 
> (from http://governance.openstack.org/reference/licensing.html)
> 
> In order to be acceptable as dependencies of OpenStack projects,
> external libraries (produced and published by 3rd-party developers)
> must be licensed under an OSI-approved license that does not restrict
> distribution of the consuming project. The list of acceptable licenses
> includes ASLv2, BSD (both forms), MIT, PSF, LGPL, ISC, and MPL.
> Licenses considered incompatible with this requirement include GPLv2,
> GPLv3, and AGPL.
> 
> Is AGPL the same as AGPLv3 (and therefore not acceptable)?
> 
> Thanks, 
> Ade Lee
> 
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