Thank you very much Justin! I forgot to redirect your response to @dev-nuttx
So, according with Justin we could take the most permissive license and use it! Best Regards, Alan On 11/10/23, Justin Mclean <jus...@classsoftware.com> wrote: > HI, > > If it is dual (or more) licensed as Apache 2.0 or GPL then you can take the > most permissive license, i.e Apache 2.0 and include it in an ASF project > under that license. > > Kind Regards, > Justin > >> On 11 Nov 2023, at 12:35 am, Alan C. Assis <acas...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Dear ASF Legal team, >> >> We have a user/company struggling to get a CAN Drivers included on >> (Apache) NuttX RTOS. >> >> The issue is because this driver was original release as GPL to be >> included into Linux kernel, then the original authors accepted to >> re-license it as Dual License: GPL and Apache. >> >> However we have "Gulliverian" dilemma, some people believe it is fine >> to include it on NuttX, since it release as Apache, and the other half >> believe it is not, because it is Apache and GPL. >> >> This dilemma is already set for more than 3 months without any >> perspective of solution. So, who in ASF could be our legal support to >> fix it? >> >> Unfortunately the authors cannot release the source code only as >> Apache license, because it needs to be included in the Linux kernel. >> >> Please find below the email from the customer asking for help: >> >> "Can you please ask via Apache JIRA for clarification of the correct >> way to specify multiple licence options for a work. For example is >> this an acceptable statement, so Nuttx could include the work via the >> Apache-2.0 licence (as per >> https://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#mutually-exclusive): >> >> // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ OR BSD-2-Clause OR Apache-2.0 >> >> Specifically for the CTUCANFD driver the original authors have >> proposed that they could re-licence their code as follows: >> >> // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ OR BSD-2-Clause OR Apache-2.0 >> /******************************************************************************* >> * >> * CTU CAN FD IP Core >> * >> * Copyright (C) 2015-2018 Ondrej Ille <ondrej.i...@gmail.com> FEE CTU >> * Copyright (C) 2018-2020 Ondrej Ille <ondrej.i...@gmail.com> self-funded >> * Copyright (C) 2018-2019 Martin Jerabek <martin.jerabe...@gmail.com> FEE >> CTU >> * Copyright (C) 2018-2020 Pavel Pisa <p...@cmp.felk.cvut.cz> FEE >> CTU/self-funded >> * >> * Project advisors: >> * Jiri Novak <jno...@fel.cvut.cz> >> * Pavel Pisa <p...@cmp.felk.cvut.cz> >> * >> * Department of Measurement (http://meas.fel.cvut.cz/) >> * Faculty of Electrical Engineering (http://www.fel.cvut.cz) >> * Czech Technical University (http://www.cvut.cz/) >> */ >> >> This question follows on from the Nuttx-dev thread titled RE: CTU CAN >> FD driver multi-licence for Nuttx, see: >> https://lists.apache.org/thread/ooq1dfvs2qnp131c2s1lb7hnojv91w3l >> There were several opinions about the validity of multi-licenced code >> and the possible interpretations of the word 'OR' which prevented a >> resolution of the question." >> >> BR, >> >> Alan >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: legal-discuss-unsubscr...@apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: legal-discuss-h...@apache.org >> > >
