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Guilin Exception Request for Policy REQ-379

Guilin Exception Request for Policy REQ-379

Owned by James Hahn
Aug 27, 2020
1 min read





Name

@James Hahn

Milestone or Requirements Exception?

Requirement

Project or Requirement Name and JIRA

Policy

REQ-379 and GPL v3

Milestones affected

N/A

Projects affected

N/A

Background description

Policy use its own base images based on alpine and adds a number of alpine packages to the image, including the following, which are GPL v3: coreutils, findutils, grep, wget.  During a previous release, attempts were made to use the built-in commands based on busybox, but their functionality was found to be impaired, thus the GNU-based packages were installed instead.  It is too late in the development cycle to try to test and retrofit the shell scripts to use the busybox alternatives.

Schedule impact

N/A

Recovery plan

The plan is to continue to use the policy base images, with the GPL v3 tools during Guilin and then move away from the GPL v3 tools during Honolulu.

Milestone schedule change

N/A

Risk

N/A - no mitigation

Status

Decision