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Posted to legal-discuss@apache.org by "Henri Yandell (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org> on 2016/12/27 19:06:58 UTC
[jira] [Closed] (LEGAL-282) Can Apache projects rely on Ansible
(GPL 3) if they don't distribute it?
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-282?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]
Henri Yandell closed LEGAL-282.
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Resolution: Fixed
Would seem to be covered by http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#platform then. Main thing I would look for is that it's very clear about the platform it's built for (i.e. I would raise it to that first paragraph of the readme).
Resolving; but please reopen if any further correspondence :)
> Can Apache projects rely on Ansible (GPL 3) if they don't distribute it?
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> Key: LEGAL-282
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-282
> Project: Legal Discuss
> Issue Type: Question
> Reporter: Mike Walch
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> I am a committer on Apache Accumulo. I created a tool (called [Muchos|https://github.com/astralway/muchos]) that launches an AWS EC2 cluster running Accumulo. The Muchos code currently resides on GitHub and is licensed as Apache 2.0. I would like to donate it to Apache Accumulo as contrib project but it contains code that relies on [Ansible|https://github.com/ansible/ansible] which is GPL 3. Muchos does not distribute Ansible but it has a [script|https://github.com/astralway/muchos/blob/master/ansible/scripts/install_ansible.sh] that installs Ansible in CentOS using yum. Muchos also has Ansible playbook code (written by me) that is executed by Ansible to setup the cluster. From reading the [previously asked questions page|http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html], it sounds like this might be OK as long as I don't distribute Ansible but I am not sure.
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