Thanks, Jim. That's very helpful. I was under the impression that GPL had restrictions that would prevent this, but after reading through the GPL again, I don't see anything that stands out. I guess it'd be the same thing as the original contributor dual licensing the code since there's nothing in AL to prohibit it.
On 4/12/07, Jim Jagielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Apr 12, 2007, at 11:00 AM, Andrus Adamchik wrote: > > On Apr 12, 2007, at 6:48 PM, Mike Kienenberger wrote: > >> On 4/12/07, Adrian Wiesmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> The technicaly easiest solution would be if Cayenne agrees in our >>> project >>> taking exlusively (and only for our SOBF Tool) the data view >>> source code >>> (and dvmodeler) and relicence it under the GPL. With the >>> condition that we >>> dual-licence everything we do on the DataViews under the ASL. >>> Like that we >>> could integrate everything without the need to have a separate lib. >> >> It's not quite as easy as you'd think. You have to find everyone who >> ever worked on the DataViews code, and individually get them to >> relicense the code to you. The Cayenne project (nor the ASF) cannot >> relicense the code as we don't have the right to do that. Both the >> project and ASF can only use the code as it was licensed to them by >> the individuals involved. > > > That's a good explanation of how things work. > > Not sure I'm completely sure of what the main point here, but the way the AL is constructed is that someone could, if they wished, take AL-licensed code and relicense it under the GPL, or any other license they wanted. They would simply need to adhere to the specification in section 4 of the AL.
