Hi Felix, Thanks for the help. Can you please walk me through the licensing requirements note on this page <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/dev_guide/developing_modules_in_groups.html>? I think the note section is stating the opposite. On Wednesday, 27 April 2022 at 15:01:06 UTC+3 Felix Fontein wrote:
> Hi, > > > ansible requires every module to be licensed under GPLv3 and > > mod_utils under BSD. > > that is not correct. While the ansible-test sanity checks look for such > copyright notices, you can also decide to ignore these sanity check > failures. Especially module_utils are often also GPLv3+ licensed in > collections. > > What you have to look out for are non-module plugins. These have to > import GPLv3+ licensed code from ansible-core. For what this means > exactly you have to ask a lawyer (I'm not one :) ), but usually it > means that your code also has to be GPLv3+ licensed. > > This is not the case for modules, so there you can use other licenses. > For module utils it depends on whether you import them only from > modules, or also from plugins. If you import them from plugins, you > probably have to talk to a lawyer if you want to be on the safe side... > > Hope this helps a bit, > Felix > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Development" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-devel/25a99634-87b9-4c04-9976-ba0f1a75f4e6n%40googlegroups.com.
