***DISCLAIMER*** I'm not a lawyer. My comments may be biased and imprecise thus if you have any doubts regarding any of licenses mentioned in this email please contact your lawyer.
@Steve Please correct me if I made any mistake on the licenses described below. ***END DISCLAIMER** Dear TSC, I'd like to kindly ask you to approve or reject usage of packages in ONAP containers that are licensed under: Apache-2.0 - same as ours Artistic - "equivalent of GPL" extended beyond software GFDL GFDL-1.2 GFDL-1.3 - copyleft licenses used for documentation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Free_Documentation_License) GPL-1 - copyleft license (for difference to popular v2 see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2844055/what-is-the-difference-between-gplv1-to-gplv2-in-simple-words) GPL-2 - copyleft license (probably the most popular). Everything that links with GPL code has to be GPL but you may use it in docker image without linking and then you code may be under different license but you need to make sure that users of your software will get the copy of GPL license and access to the source code that was used to create the binary GPL-3 - copyleft license which extends the restrictions put by GPL v2 to not only provide the source code and license text but also exact instructions how to replace the given component in your product. Many companies have concerns regarding this license thus please pay spacial attention to this one. LGPL-2 LGPL-2.1 LGPL-3 - used for libraries. The library code is licensed under particular version of GPL but does not enforce GPL license on the component that links with it. (unless you modify the library itself) MPL-1.1 MPL-2.0 - mozilla public license (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Public_License) OpenSSL License - used in older versions of openssl now openssl uses apache 2.0 (https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html) There is also a dozen of less popular but usually permissive and widely accepted licenses: BSD MIT CC0-1.0 zlib boost OpenLDAP Python SISSL Vim ISC Best regards, -- Krzysztof Opasiak Samsung R&D Institute Poland Samsung Electronics -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#21599): https://lists.onap.org/g/onap-discuss/message/21599 Mute This Topic: https://lists.onap.org/mt/75333277/21656 Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.onap.org/g/onap-discuss/unsub [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
