Ansible is licensed as GPLv3. But it sounds like AnsibleWorks-awx is a commercial-only product? Are future 'pro' features going to only be released and maintained in commercial variants of AnsibleWorks or separate related projects? Would love more transparency about the relationship between open and closed-source products at AnsibleWorks.
I made a similar clarifying request on the Ansible user group forum a few weeks ago but my message was not approved. I believe that these are fair requests and deserve clarification.
We've posted quite a lot about this to the list in the past, I'm not sure what happened to your post.
Ansible is GPL, and we're totally going to keep it just the way it is, and continuing to make it more awesome. (The application is just invoking ansible-playbook).
Why is it commercial? A lot of the stuff we are building is mainly interesting to enterprises -- RBAC, reporting, things like that.
The core things everybody needs to use Ansible today, all the modules, are free software and we will continue to add loads more there. Ansible received over 50 new modules in the last 2 releases.
I made a similar clarifying request on the Ansible user group forum a few weeks ago but my message was not approved. I believe that these are fair requests and deserve clarification.