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Hi,

Thanks for raising this. A note regarding ironic inline.

On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 10:32 AM Radosław Piliszek <
radoslaw.piliszek at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear fellow OpenStackers,
>
> it has been brought to my attention that having any (Python) imports
> against a GPL lib (e.g Ansible) *might be* considered linking with all
> the repercussions of that (copyleft anyone?).
>
> Please see the original thread in Launchpad:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/kolla-ansible/+bug/1918663
>
> Not only the projects that have "Ansible" in name might be affected,
> e.g. Ironic also imports Ansible parts.
>

Only in our ansible modules and only the BSD parts, namely
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/lib/ansible/module_utils/basic.py

Dmitry


>
> Do note *I am not a lawyer* so I have no idea whether the Python
> importing is analogous to linking in terms of GPL. I am only
> forwarding the concerns reported to me in Launchpad. A quick Google
> search was inconclusive.
>
> I have done some analysis in the original Launchpad thread mentioned
> above. I am copying it here for ease of reference.
>
> """
> Hmm, the reasoning is interesting. OpenStack Ansible and TripleO would
> probably also be interested in knowing whether GPL violation is
> happening or not. I am not in a position to answer this question. I
> will propagate this matter to the mailing list:
> http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-discuss/
> FWIW, TripleO is by Red Hat, just like Ansible, so one would assume
> they know what they are doing. OTOH, there is always room for a
> mistake.
> All in all, end users must use Ansible so they must agree to GPL
> anyhow, so the license switch would be mostly cosmetic: +/- the
> OpenStack licensing requirements [1].
> That said, Ansible Collections for OpenStack are already licensed under
> GPL [2].
> And a related (and very relevant) project using Ansible - Zuul -
> includes a note about partial GPL [3].
> A quick search [4] reveals a lot of places that could be violating GPL
> in OpenStack (e.g. in Ironic, base CI jobs) if we followed this
> linking logic.
>
> [1] https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/licensing.html
> [2] https://opendev.org/openstack/ansible-collections-openstack
> [3] https://opendev.org/zuul/zuul
> [4]
> https://codesearch.opendev.org/?q=(from%7Cimport)%5Cs%2B%5Cbansible%5Cb&i=nope&files=&excludeFiles=&repos=
> """
>
> -yoctozepto
>
>

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