Open Stack

On 2016-11-04 22:22:47 +0000 (+0000), Steven Dake (stdake) wrote:
[...]
> The first file I examine in any repository is the LICENSE file –
> if its GPLv3, I look no further.  I recommend everyone that has
> signed the CLA follow the same pattern to keep OpenStack in good
> legal health.

As I understand it, the challenge here is that plugins for Ansible
will by definition be derivative works of Ansible and thus inherit
their license choice. No amount of "clean room reimplementation"
will solve that unless you also reimplement Ansible under a
different license while you're at it.

If having the ICLA enforced on a repo with GPL code in it is an
issue, this could in theory be resolved by putting it in a separate
repository with no CLA enforcement. If a plug-in for Ansible being
under the same license as Ansible poses a problem for a repo as a
deliverable of an official OpenStack project team, then perhaps it
could just be distributed in an unofficial repo instead (though this
seems overly proscriptive to me).
-- 
Jeremy Stanley