# license issues for ansible contribution.

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/license-issues-for-ansible-contribution/32338>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [February 26, 2020, 9:33pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/license-issues-for-ansible-contribution/32338 "2020-02-26T21:33:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Nalin\_Garg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ebca7d/32.png) [@Nalin\_Garg](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Nalin_Garg)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2020, 9:33pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/license-issues-for-ansible-contribution/32338/1 "2020-02-26T21:33:18Z")

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I have a PR towards upstream ansible that is failing because of lib/ansible/modules/web\_infrastructure/jenkins\_node.py:0:0: missing-gplv3-license: GPLv3 license header not found in the first 20 lines of the module

I have a licenced my code under BSD.2 . I was wondering if I can ignore the gplv3.

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**Author:** ![sivel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/sivel/32/1198_2.png) [@sivel](https://forum.ansible.com/u/sivel)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2020, 9:37pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/license-issues-for-ansible-contribution/32338/2 "2020-02-26T21:37:40Z")

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All modules shipped within Ansible must adhere to GPLv3+.

However, we are basically not accepting any new modules at this time, and new modules would need to be submitted to a collection repo instead. See [https://github.com/ansible-collections/overview/blob/master/README.rst](https://github.com/ansible-collections/overview/blob/master/README.rst) for more information.

However, any collection that we own will still adhere to the requirement that modules must be GPLv3+.

But you are free to create your own collection, and ship this module independently, using different licensing.

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**Author:** ![Nalin\_Garg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ebca7d/32.png) [@Nalin\_Garg](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Nalin_Garg)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2020, 11:57pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/license-issues-for-ansible-contribution/32338/3 "2020-02-26T23:57:42Z")

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Thanks @Matt for the response. I heard about the change, I did not understand how it would have translated to my PR ( [https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/67593](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/67593) ). Should I abandon it or someone from community would make that call for the PR?