Ansible License Requirements

[Jatin Garg]

Hi Guys,

I need to understand license requirements for commercial use of Ansible and AWX.

I think that no license is required for Ansible and AWX.

Please suggest.

Regards,

Jatin Garg

[Luca 'remix_tj' Lorenzetto]

Hello Jatin,

ansible and awx are opensource projects, so you can use for free.

Luca

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[Antony Stone]

On Wednesday 12 May 2021 at 14:09:06, Luca 'remix_tj' Lorenzetto wrote:

> Hello Jatin,
>
> ansible and awx are opensource projects, so you can use for free.

More specifically, Ansible is licensed under GPL 3+ and AWX is licensed under
Apache 2.0.

Finding the AWX licence is not so hard, however I am somewhat amazed that even
with a fair amount of searching, I couldn't find any clear statement on the
ansible website itself that it is licensed under GPL 3+. I took that
information from wikipedia.

https://www.ansible.com/products/awx-project/faq

Antony.

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[Brian Coca]

normally each project has this or similar (COPYING):

https://github.com/ansible/awx/blob/devel/LICENSE.md

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[Vladimir Botka]

On Wed, 12 May 2021 15:24:45 +0200
Antony Stone <Antony...@ansible.open.source.it> wrote:

> ... fair amount of searching, ... it is licensed under GPL 3+. I took that
> information from wikipedia.

GitHub is the primary reference. This is where the code is published.
Simply google "github ansible" or "github awx"

https://github.com/ansible/ansible
https://github.com/ansible/awx

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[Antony Stone]

On Wednesday 12 May 2021 at 17:57:19, Vladimir Botka wrote:

> On Wed, 12 May 2021 15:24:45 +0200
>
> Antony Stone <Antony...@ansible.open.source.it> wrote:
> > ... fair amount of searching, ... it is licensed under GPL 3+. I took
> > that information from wikipedia.
>
> GitHub is the primary reference. This is where the code is published.
> Simply google "github ansible" or "github awx"

I can't help feeling that most people who might want to know the licence under
which Ansible is published are going to start with a Google search for
"ansible licence" (or perhaps "ansible license") or else "ansible licensing".

How are they supposed to know that "github" is the magic word?


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[Vladimir Botka]

> > Antony Stone <Antony...@ansible.open.source.it> wrote:
> > > ... fair amount of searching, ... it is licensed under GPL 3+. I took
> > > that information from wikipedia.
> >
> > GitHub is the primary reference. This is where the code is published.
> > Simply google "github ansible" or "github awx"
>
> I can't help feeling that most people who might want to know the licence under
> which Ansible is published are going to start with a Google search for
> "ansible licence" (or perhaps "ansible license") or else "ansible licensing".
> How are they supposed to know that "github" is the magic word?

There are hints everywhere
1) "Edit on GitHub" in each right upper corner of the documentation.
2) https://www.ansible.com/ -> Community -> "Ansible on GitHub"
3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansible_(software)#References

It seems that the question is rather "How are they supposed to
know that source code is the right place to look for a license?"

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[Brian Coca]

In all cases I know of, the license is included with the source code
(seems like it is a copyright requirement).



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