Date: 2004-10-06T20:25:14 Editor: HenriYandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wiki: Jakarta Wiki Page: LicenceIssues URL: http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta/LicenceIssues
A first attempt at explaining the licence situation New Page: A list of licences other than the Apache v1 and v2 licences, and whether they may be used by Jakarta (and other ASF projects by implication) sub-projects. For a full range of potential open-source licences, see http://www.opensource.org/licences/. || '''Licence''' || '''ASL compatible?''' || '''Commentary''' || || BSD || Yes || || || MIT || Yes || || || GPL || No || || || LGPL || No || The LGPL's intent is that it could be usable, but the legalese is too poor || || IBM CPL || No || A new licence may depend on both CPL and ASL, but ASL cannot depend on CPL || To clarify; a statement of not being ASL compatible means that we cannot contain such code in the ASF repositories, or import their classes into our code. We can provide a plugin mechanism by which LGPL'd plugins might be plugged into our code, though the configuration to do so should not be in the ASF repository. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
