Reference TC doc on licensing

Our licensing stance is slightly more nuanced than was described
here.  Reference the external TC statement on licensing requirements
rather than trying to re-describe it here.

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James E. Blair 2016-02-14 08:06:36 -08:00
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- Is the library license compatible? - Is the library license compatible?
Preferably Apache2, BSD, MIT licensed. LGPL is ok. GPL or AGPL is The library should be licensed as described in `Licensing requirements`_.
verboten. Any other oddball license should be rejected.
- Is the library already packaged in the distros we target (Ubuntu - Is the library already packaged in the distros we target (Ubuntu
latest / Fedora latest)? latest / Fedora latest)?
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transition plan to drop the old library in a reasonable amount of transition plan to drop the old library in a reasonable amount of
time. time.
.. _Licensing requirements: http://governance.openstack.org/reference/licensing.html
For Upgrading Requirements Versions For Upgrading Requirements Versions
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