Minor correction. The BSD License is not Category X. The commonly-used BSD license is a permissive license, just like the MIT license.
However, LGPL *is* Category X, not Category B. The classifications and nuances are explained at <http://apache.org/legal/resolved.html>. -- Dennis E. Hamilton [email protected] [email protected] +1-206-779-9430 https://keybase.io/orcmid PGP F96E 89FF D456 628A X.509 certs used and requested for signed e-mail -----Original Message----- From: jan i [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2015 08:25 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Prototype web app, and Editor API [ ... ] Category B code can be a number of licenses, like LGPL and MPL. We cannot however use e.g. GPL or BSD, the reason is that they limit downstream projects from e.g. making a derivative and sell it...something we at ASF really like when it happens. [ ... ]
