Dan I am not 100% sure that only him sending an e-mail to us on isis-dev@ is enough ? I updated the legal JIRA with another question [1] to make sure of that.
Also I will get in contact with him to update his site to reflect that he dual licensed his code under both ASL v2.0 and LGPL. [1] - https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-81?focusedCommentId=13036093&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-13036093 On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 9:22 AM, dan haywood <[email protected]> wrote: > Working towards our release. One of our dependencies was licensed LGPL, > which the ASF does not view as compatible with ASLv2. Last year I > corresponded with the author of that dependency; per the email chain below > you can see that he has agreed to dual-license his code under both LGPL and > ASLv2. > > Since his website has not been updated, I'm forwarding this correspondence > to this list in order that it can be referenced in the archives. (His email > is freely available on the web, so I haven't bothered to obscure it). > > Dan > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Sergey Ilinsky <[email protected]> > Date: 14 October 2010 10:11 > Subject: Re: XmlHttpRequest licensing > To: [email protected] > > > OK. > > I confirm that I now dual license my XMLHttpRequest.js library (available at > the http://code.google.com/p/xmlhttprequest/) under both the Apache License > 2.0 and the LGPL. > > Sergey/ > > > > On 14 October 2010 00:04, Dan Haywood <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Sergey, >> Yes, sorry to be creating this hassle for you. Answers within. >> >> >> On 13/10/2010 22:04, Sergey Ilinsky wrote: >> >> Could you tell me directly: >> 1) what license will work for your project >> >> The most straightforward is Apache's own, ie: Apache License 2.0. There's >> more discussion of other valid licenses at [1] >> >> >> 2) if the license attribution provided in writing in email is sufficient >> >> Yes it is. You could simply say: >> >> *I confirm that I now license my XMLHttpRequest.js library (available at >> the http://code.google.com/p/xmlhttprequest/) under the Apache License 2.0 >> * >> or you could say (if you didn't want to be bothered updating your website): >> >> *I confirm that I now **dual license my XMLHttpRequest.js library >> (available at the http://code.google.com/p/xmlhttprequest/) under both the >> Apache License 2.0 and the LGPL. >> * >> >> Hope that helps, I appreciate your time. >> Dan >> >> [1] http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-a. >> >> > -- Thanks - Mohammad Nour Author of (WebSphere Application Server Community Edition 2.0 User Guide) http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247585.html - LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mnour - Blog: http://tadabborat.blogspot.com ---- "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving" - Albert Einstein "Writing clean code is what you must do in order to call yourself a professional. There is no reasonable excuse for doing anything less than your best." - Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship "Stay hungry, stay foolish." - Steve Jobs
