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Remove mentions to CLA in licensing guide

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Reword the ASLv2 requirement in the process,
and fix some links used in references.

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Goutham Pacha Ravi
2025-06-30 15:09:19 -07:00
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@@ -7,17 +7,15 @@ to licensing.
The project must be licensed under `Apache License, Version 2.0`_ (ASLv2).
.. _Apache License, Version 2.0: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
.. _Apache License, Version 2.0: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
**OpenStack projects and libraries** (produced by official OpenStack project
teams) should generally be licensed under ASLv2, and otherwise must be
licensed under a license supported by the `Contributor License
Agreement`_ (CLA) which allows redistribution by the OpenStack
Foundation under ASLv2 (currently only the MIT and both forms of the
BSD license meet this requirement). In particular, service projects
are recommended to *always* pick ASLv2.
.. _Contributor License Agreement: https://docs.openstack.org/contributors/common/setup-gerrit.html#individual-contributor-license-agreement
**OpenStack projects and libraries** (produced by official OpenStack
project teams) should generally be licensed under the Apache License,
Version 2.0 (ASLv2), or under a license that is both compatible with
ASLv2 and allows redistribution or sublicensing under ASLv2 terms.
Currently, only the MIT license and the BSD 2-Clause and 3-Clause
licenses meet this requirement. In particular, service projects are
strongly recommended to use ASLv2 as their license.
In order to be acceptable as dependencies of OpenStack projects,
**external libraries** (produced and published by 3rd-party developers)
@@ -31,7 +29,7 @@ into a gray area - they are not presumed to be compatible or incompatible and
instead are reviewed on a case by case basis. Please use the `legal-discuss`_
mailing list to bring up any such cases.
.. _legal-discuss: http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/legal-discuss
.. _legal-discuss: https://lists.openstack.org/mailman3/lists/legal-discuss.lists.openstack.org/
**Projects run as part of the OpenStack Infrastructure** (in order to
*produce* OpenStack software) may be licensed under any `OSI-approved license`_.
@@ -40,8 +38,8 @@ This includes tools that are run with or on OpenStack projects only
during validation or testing phases of development (e.g., a source
code linter).
.. _OSI-approved license: http://opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical
.. _OSI-approved license: https://opensource.org/license
Other licenses (not explicitly listed in this document) may be considered
in the future on a case-by-case basis by the Technical Committee, with the
help of the OpenStack Foundation legal counsel.
help of the OpenInfra Foundation legal counsel.