GPL V3 question

[ivanmatmati]

Hi, My OSS project is considering using pebble as a supervisor. But we also have a closed source project that could use it as well for the same purpose. The idea is to integrate pebble in our docker image and make some command calls from our ingress controller to manage the processes. Is it legit to do that with regards to the license ?

[benhoyt]

Hi @ivanmatmati, I am not a lawyer or a licensing expert by any means, but to me that sounds like using the Linux kernel (also GPL) in a Docker container, which is okay. But if you modify it, you'd have to release the source under GPL. That said, we don't know your use case and so we're not in the best position to help here -- and unfortunately Canonical cannot provide outside legal advice for your team or system. So your best bet is to ask these questions of and work with your own legal team, sorry!