Wednesday, November 10, 2004, 11:56:04 PM, robert burrell donkin wrote: > On 10 Nov 2004, at 22:46, Stephen Colebourne wrote: >> This is a legal question, and most of us aren't very good at those ;-( >> >> I believe that if your new work is derived directly from the original >> source >> you gave to the ASF, and is not derived from any later additions made >> whilst >> part of [convert], then the code is still just yours to do as your >> wish. But >> IANAL.
> this is also my understanding (again, though, IANAL). if this isn't > good enough for you, then probably general at jakarta would be a better > place to raise this issue. maybe a member or henri will be able to give > you a more definitive answer... > of course, the derived contributions are also be built on providing > that you abide by the terms of the ASL2.0 (which aren't very onerous). Thanks for your responses. I'm planning to distribute it under der Apache License as well, so I hope there are little or no issues. What I don't know is if you guys would be interested in the library as part of commons. Ron --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]