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Red Hat has a history of buying closed source software and releasing it as Open Source (KVM, Gluster, Cloudforms etc) so I would expect Tower to be open sourced. Assuming Ansible have the rights to all the code of course and dont license it from someone else of course.

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It's a pretty straightforward Django app, so they could open it up without issue.

They might be more inclined to roll the functionality into one of their other product lines though.

Gluster has always been an OpenSource project IIRC.

Correct. There was a time, pre-acquisition, when some separate management-console bits were not open source, but nobody cared about those bits anyway and now they're long gone. The "GlusterFS" file system part, which is the part everyone except one misguided CEO (now at Docker) cared about, has always been completely open source.

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