On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 1:30 AM, Werner Keil <[email protected]> wrote:
> To make the OpenDDR artifacts, especially resource files available to > DeviceMap they have to be re-licensed. Showing my ignorance -- wasn't this done when the DeviceMap project was started? If not, why not? > I trust e.g. Mark Struberg whom I had a great discussion about issues > DeltaSpike faces in Vienna can tell you in greater Detail, but based on > especially the question of using Material licensed under W3C license as > Source in the ASF repo as opposed to using a binary lib (which is fine and > done by dozens of projects;-) you may see why only initial committers from > the OpenDDR Team (myself and one or two others, see the project page, I > don't know who else technically became a Committer by now, so I could be > the only one) are eligable to relicense that IP from OpenDDR license to > Apache. Once it is here do and improve as you like without violating any > other legitimate claims but without acting on behalf of OpenDDR or other > licensors neither Reza nor others must "Copy&Paste" or merge from the > OpenDDR repo or a similar third Party;-) Please bring explicit licensing questions onto this list. I don't recall any previous discussions about the suitability of the W3C license for bringing into ASF svn. W3C licensed source *can* be used within the ASF. --kevan
