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John Griffith wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Sean Dague <sdague at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>> rtslib is currently listed as a dependency for cinder. The package itself is
>> AGPL, which has some rather strong requirements for a cloud provider using
>> it (https://github.com/agrover/rtslib-fb/blob/master/COPYING).
> [...]
> Thanks for pointing this out Sean, not being a lawyer myself there are
> some ramifications that I'm not overly clear on regarding AGPL.  One
> possible solution is that since the LIO driver is an optional config
> we could remove it from pip-requires and packaging and add information
> to the install/config guide for folks that want to use LIO with a note
> about the licensing.  If nothing else this may at least be prudent for
> Grizzly.

We should definitely solve this issue before Grizzly final release.
I created a bug to keep this on the release radar:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/cinder/+bug/1157091

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Thierry Carrez (ttx)
Release Manager, OpenStack