On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 12:24 PM Ian Cook <ianmc...@apache.org> wrote: > > Hi Sarah, > > Thanks for pursuing this. > > The ASF 3rd Party License Policy lists a number of standard, > off-the-shelf licenses that are compatible with Category B, but the > policy does not include any provision for custom-written licenses. > This appears to be a custom-written license. Is that correct? > > Is this custom-written license based on one of the listed Category B > licenses? If so, can you tell us which one? If not, can you provide > some explanation of why this license should be considered to meet the > criteria for Category B?
FWIW: while these are all excellent questions for the pre-work, if there needs to be an ultimate statement on this -- you'll have to file a LEGAL JIRA. E.g.: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-506 (plz include all the relevant details when filing it -- whatever comes out of this thread). Thanks, Roman. > > Thank you, > Ian > > On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 12:08 PM Sarah Gilmore > <sgilm...@mathworks.com.invalid> wrote: > > > > Hi Everyone, > > > > Kevin Gurney and I have been working on integrating the MATLAB Arrow > > bindings with the project's release processes in this pull request [1]. > > While working on integrating with the release tooling, we realized that we > > need to ensure that the licenses of any MEX artifacts [2] bundled with the > > released MLTBX [3] file are compatible with the ASF 3rd Party License > > Policy [4]. > > > > After several rounds of discussion with some colleagues at MathWorks, we > > came up with a license [5] that is intended to meet the requirements for > > inclusion as a "Category B" [6] license according to the ASF 3rd Party > > License Policy. > > > > Our goal is to make sure we are doing the right thing here, so, as per > > Kou's suggestion [7], we wanted to share the proposed license [5] with the > > broader Arrow development community. We understand this may need further > > input from ASF Legal as well. > > > > Please let us know what we can do to help move this forward. We sincerely > > appreciate everyone's support as we navigate these licensing requirements. > > > > [1] https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/38660 > > [2] https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/call-mex-functions.html > > [3] > > https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/creating-help.html?s_tid=CRUX_lftnav > > [4] https://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html > > [5] https://github.com/apache/arrow/files/13955180/license.txt > > [6] https://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-b > > [7] https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/38660#discussion_r1454804607 > > > > Best, > > > > Sarah Gilmore > >
