On 19/02/2014, at 14:30 , Grant McLean <[email protected]> wrote:

> It looks like Ansible is GPL too.
> 
> Although of course since Ansible does so little, any modifications you'd
> need to make to use it for deployments would likely be to your own
> scripts and not to Ansible itself.

True.  However I probably confused the issue by talking just about cap 
modifications.  We don't mind releasing our code that we add to the deployment 
tools - we release most of our tools as open source anyway.

But if we build a solution around a GPL product and then combine that with the 
core apps to sell to customers, there is no clear boundary in the GPL that 
ensures that the GPL only applies to the deployment stuff and not the whole 
solution ie. our core IP.

It's not necessarily going to be interpreted in that way, but there's no case 
law clearly limiting its scope and so we would be taking the risk of having to 
defend it in court.  Wouldn't want to go there - we'd be nervous any time we 
moved a bit of code between the management stuff and the core apps.

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