On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, J Aaron Farr wrote:
> However, mx4j is a good example because apparently it includes code licensed
> under the Jetty and Jython licenses [2]. While I am not intimately familiar
> with mx4j, this may mean that the total legal effect of using mx4j is not
> contained within the mx4j license alone, but is in fact a combination of the
> terms of the three licenses. Since this combination may in fact be more
> restrictive than the terms in the mx4j license alone, the library may not be
> in
> the clear to be used by ASF projects. To confirm this, one would need to
> investigate all three licenses, understand which parts of mx4j fall outside of
> its own license, and then come to a decision on how the library can be used in
> the ASF.
>
> It is exactly this sort of confusion the ASF would like to avoid.
Thank you, jaaron, for articulating this. Indeed, this is what we'd like
to avoid - confusion and surprises for ourselves, as well as confusion and
surprises for those who use and redistribute Apache software.
Brian
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