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# Ansible-lint

`ansible-lint` checks playbooks for practices and behavior that could
potentially be improved. As a community backed project ansible-lint supports
only the last two major versions of Ansible.

[Visit the Ansible Lint docs site](https://ansible-lint.readthedocs.io/)

# Contributing

Please read [Contribution guidelines] if you wish to contribute.

# Licensing

The ansible-lint project is distributed as [GPLv3] due to use of [GPLv3] runtime
dependencies, like `ansible` and `yamllint`.

For historical reasons, its own code-base remains licensed under a more
liberal [MIT] license and any contributions made are accepted as being made
under original [MIT] license.

# Authors

ansible-lint was created by [Will Thames] and is now maintained as part of the
[Ansible] by [Red Hat] project.

[ansible]: https://ansible.com
[contribution guidelines]: https://ansible-lint.readthedocs.io/contributing
[gplv3]: https://github.com/ansible/ansible-lint/blob/main/COPYING
[mit]: https://github.com/ansible/ansible-lint/blob/main/docs/licenses/LICENSE.mit.txt
[red hat]: https://redhat.com
[will thames]: https://github.com/willthames
