Newly submitted collection hpe.nimble uses Apache-2.0 license

[Ompragash]

SUMMARY

Currently the newly submitted collection hpe.nimble for inclusion uses Apache-2.0 license which MUST be changed to GPL v3 as we only allow GPLv3+ (and optionally BSD-2-clause for module_utils).

[abadger]

People were hesitant to allow more licenses without legal approval but also wanted to get this question resolved in time for collections with other licenses to be included for ansible-4.0. In an attempt to move this forward, I'll make a proposal for next meeting that opens the door partially to other licenses (limited to GPLv3+ compatible licenses and modules).

[felixfontein]

(see link in https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/ansible-community/2021-03-31/ansible_community_meeting.2021-03-31-18.00.html for the log of the discussion)

[abadger]

A new interim licensing guideline has been approved that allows GPLv3+ compatible licensing in module and module_utils code. This should remove the blocker on hpe.nimble's licensing.

Thanks for bringing this issue up!

[felixfontein]

I've mentioned the result here: ansible-collections/ansible-inclusion#13 (comment)

[tadeboro]

We can probably close this issue since the hpe.nimble collection maintainers changed the license of the documentation fragment: hpe-storage/nimble-ansible-modules#39