[OpenStack Foundation] [magnum] Seek advices for a licence issue

Mark Collier mark at openstack.org
Mon Apr 11 16:27:52 UTC 2016


To address the original question about the process - for license questions of this nature, the best bet is to contact Jonathan Bryce the Executive Director and he can pull in other resources as needed (including our legal experts).

I’m copying Jonathan and we’ll get back to you soon.

Thanks!
Mark




> On Apr 10, 2016, at 8:43 PM, Guang Ya GY Liu <liugya at cn.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks Jeremy and Hong Bin, I will talk with Mesosphere guys in this week's sync up meeting for this to see if we can integrate it to Magnum.
> 
> Will have you updated if there are any feedback on this.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Guang Ya Liu (刘光亚)
> Senior Software Engineer
> Cloud Solution and OpenStack Development
> IBM Platform Computing
> Systems and Technology Group
> Email: liugya at cn.ibm.com
> Phone: 86-29-68797069 Tieline: 87069
> 
> <graycol.gif>Jeremy Stanley ---04/09/2016 11:27:38 PM---On 2016-04-09 15:02:03 +0000 (+0000), Hongbin Lu wrote: [...]
> 
> From: Jeremy Stanley <fungi at yuggoth.org>
> To: foundation at lists.openstack.org
> Cc: Hongbin Lu <hongbin.lu at huawei.com>, Guang Ya GY Liu/China/IBM at IBMCN
> Date: 04/09/2016 11:27 PM
> Subject: Re: [OpenStack Foundation] [magnum] Seek advices for a licence issue
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 2016-04-09 15:02:03 +0000 (+0000), Hongbin Lu wrote:
> [...]
> > Recently, one of our contributors suggested to extend the Mesos
> > support to DCOS [3]. The Magnum team is unclear if there is a
> > license issue for shipping DCOS, which looks like a close-source
> > product but has community version in Amazon Web Services [4].
> [...]
> 
> Their EULA at https://docs.mesosphere.com/community-edition-eula/ <https://docs.mesosphere.com/community-edition-eula/>
> indicates (item 4 subpart ii):
> 
>    "Licensee will not (and will not allow any third party to) [...]
>    (ii) sell, assign, distribute, provide, lease, lend, disclose,
>    use for timesharing or service bureau purposes, or otherwise use
>    or allow others to use for the benefit of any third party, any
>    Licensed Software (except as expressly and specifically
>    authorized by Mesosphere)."
> 
> So without explicit permission from Mesosphere it doesn't seem like
> the OpenStack community including Magnum developers can legally
> redistribute DCOS Community Edition at all, regardless of whether
> it's within the bounds of our community norms (which I also feel
> like it isn't).
> -- 
> Jeremy Stanley
> 
> 
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