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Add process for requesting approval for licenses

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Clement Ho 2017-02-14 14:46:14 -06:00
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@ -64,6 +64,10 @@ Libraries with the following licenses are unacceptable for use:
- [GNU AGPLv3][AGPLv3]: AGPL-licensed libraries cannot be linked to from non-GPL projects.
- [Open Software License (OSL)][OSL]: is a copyleft license. In addition, the FSF [recommend against its use][OSL-GNU].
## Requesting Approval for Licenses
Libraries that are not listed in the [Acceptable Licenses][Acceptable-Licenses] or [Unacceptable Licenses][Unacceptable-Licenses] list can be submitted to the legal team for review. Please create an issue in the [Organization Repository][Org-Repo] and cc `@gl-legal`. After a decision has been made, the original requestor is responsible for updating this document.
## Notes
Decisions regarding the GNU GPL licenses are based on information provided by [The GNU Project][GNU-GPL-FAQ], as well as [the Open Source Initiative][OSI-GPL], which both state that linking GPL libraries makes the program itself GPL.
@ -96,3 +100,6 @@ Gems which are included only in the "development" or "test" groups by Bundler ar
[OSI-GPL]: https://opensource.org/faq#linking-proprietary-code
[OSL]: https://opensource.org/licenses/OSL-3.0
[OSL-GNU]: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#OSL
[Org-Repo]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/organization
[Acceptable-Licenses]: #acceptable-licenses
[Unacceptable-Licenses]: #unacceptable-licenses