[Pulp-dev] Pulp 3 Licensing

[Oleksandr Saprykin]

Hi Dana,

I would like to clarify under which license terms pulp plugins \ derivative
work are eligible to be published.
IANAL. As far as I know GPL (any version) requires that all derivative work
must be published under the same terms of GPL license.

Therefore as a plugin author I cannot release pulp plugin under terms of
any other more permissive license than the GPL (e.g. MIT, BSD, Apache
licenses).

Another example. If Galaxy project released under terms of Apache 2.0
license wants to use pulp as a direct dependency, meaning
subclassing *pulpcore* or *pulpcore-plugin* classes, it creates GPL license
violation due to GPL license requirement to be licensed under GPL
for all covered (derivative) work.

OLEKSANDR SAPRYKIN

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Red Hat

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On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 9:56 PM Dana Walker <dawalker at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone!
>
> Thus far, Pulp 3 has been operating under the GPLv2 license.  Given the
> way the GPL defines derivative works, this means that the plugins should
> also be licensed as GPLv2.  Take a look at this FAQ to further clarify the
> current state of things. [0]
>
> What we’d like to hear is feedback from each of our stakeholders and
> community members.  Do you have any concerns with this license, or are you
> happy with leaving things as is?
>
> Looking forward, are there any compelling reasons to consider alternatives
> at this pivotal time in our community’s growth?  Let us know!
>
> [0] https://pulp.plan.io/projects/pulp/wiki/Pulp3_Licensing_FAQ
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Dana
>
> Dana Walker
>
> Associate Software Engineer
>
> Red Hat
>
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