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ZZelle wrote:
> While working on puppet-neutron, i discovered that puppet-neutron
> depends on the sysctl puppet module[1] which is GPLv2 (be careful to not
> confuse it with another sysctl module[2] which is apache2). This
> dependency has been added a long time ago (in juno or before).
> 
> It seems we have a license issue (ie: apache2 code depends on GPLv2 code)?

I'm not a lawyer, but I'd agree that this may be a problem. Do Puppet
module "dependencies" count as libraries / derivative work ?

In the past, we addressed almost-similar issues, where GPL-licensed
Puppet modules were included in an otherwise-Apache licensed package,
but that was a direct inclusion of code, not a Puppet runtime module
dependency.

If that was indeed an issue, what would be our technical options ? Is
puppet-neutron the only module affected ?

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Thierry Carrez (ttx)