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On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 12:27 PM, Mark Collier <mark at openstack.org> wrote:

> 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/
> 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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