Dear mentors,
I've realized that one of my sister projects (restful objects) has a
dependency on some LGPL software.
Per the email chain below, I contacted the developer, Sergey Ilinsky,
who has granted us permission with the words below:
/Yes, I authorize "NO framework and your sister projects accepted [2]
into the Apache incubator" to use my XMLHttpRequest.js library
(available at the http://code.google.com/p/xmlhttprequest/ and currently
licensed under LGPL) with the ASL license.
/
Does this make sense legally, and is it enough to put on file? Or
would he need to formally license his software under ASL from his main
website (and if he's not happy, then I'd need to yank it and use
something else instead).
Thanks,
Dan
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: XmlHttpRequest licensing
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 17:46:26 +0100
From: Dan Haywood <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
Organization: Haywood Associates Ltd.
To: Sergey Ilinsky <[email protected]>
Sergey,
Thank you very much for your prompt reply, and for granting us this
permission.
I'm still learning the ropes at Apache, so I'll need to double check
that the statement below suffices (and legally makes sense) but I would
hope it would.
~~~
Just had a quick glance at your Ample SDK; I'm always on the lookout for
new frameworks that target the UI experience. It might work quite well
as an alternative default front-end for my restful interface. Just
added it to the Isis wiki. But whatever, good luck with build up a
community for it.
Thanks again,
Dan
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On 06/10/2010 17:18, Sergey Ilinsky wrote:
Dan,
Yes, I authorize "NO framework and your sister projects accepted [2]
into the Apache incubator" to use my XMLHttpRequest.js library
(available at the http://code.google.com/p/xmlhttprequest/ and
currently licensed under LGPL) with the ASL license.
BTW, you may be interested in looking into another project I recently
started - Ample SDK, Open-Source JavaScript GUI Framework
http://www.amplesdk.com There are already several businesses using it
for their benefit!
Sergey/
On 6 October 2010 18:10, Dan Haywood <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi Sergey,
I came across your XMLHttpRequest a while back while writing my
book [1] on the Java Naked Objects framework (perhaps you've heard
of it, but then again, perhaps not) and incorporated it into some
companion "sister" project to expose a RESTful interface to an NO
domain model.
Fast forward a year, and we've had the NO framework and my sister
projects accepted [2] into the Apache incubator.
Anyway... one of the requirements for Apache is that all
dependencies must be ASL or equivalent. I see that you've changed
the license on XMLHttpRequest from GPL to LGPL, but LGPL doesn't
quite cut-it for Apache.
So, my question is... would you be willing to further change your
license from LGPL to ASL? Otherwise I guess I'll need to
reimplement, but it's a shame to do so given such a good piece of
work is already out there.
Many thanks,
Dan Haywood
[1] http://pragprog.com/titles/dhnako
[2] http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/IsisProposal.
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