Hi Roman,
Roman Geus wrote:
Hello Bruno
I'm sorry about not paying more attention to the licensing issues. I
meant no harm and I am certainly not trying to take credit for your work.
Just to explain: the code I posted is not a quick rip-off of your
filter. I put considerable amount of time into rewriting, refactoring
and adding new functionality.
It was my understanding that NegotiateFilter would not fall into
category of "redistribution" or "modification" of your SpnegoFilter and
thus not violate the copyright. However I'm not experienced in these
legal matters.
Don't worry, I'm not upset, it's nice of you to have acknowledged my
work and I do realise you've done some substantial work on this too.
It's some code that I've planned to contribute to Restlet anyway at some
point, so it's not a major issue, but I have signed the Restlet JCA; I'm
not sure you have.
I'm not a legal expert either, but I think it would have been in your
interest to send your code with a licence (pending JCA integration),
since many people might assume that what is made public is in the public
domain (although I don't think it legally is -- it's probably the
opposite, but a licence would clarify things). This is in fact why I put
this licence on my code in the first place (also because the copyright
is actually held by my employer), not because I didn't want it in the
Restlet code.
My understanding of the (BSD) licence I've used is that putting it at
the bottom of the README file saying something like "some of this code
was based on code distributed with this licence: ..." would have been
sufficient.
As the (representative of the) copyright holder, this is something that
only I (or another representative) can waive when contributing through
the Restlet JCA, which I'm happy to do in this instance.
Cheers,
Bruno.
