Hello everybody, and Happy New Year. I asked the question on the AWS forum if the AWS S3 sample code can be re-licensed with an Apache license. Here's the reply I got:
"Ultimately this is up to the project into whom you are incorporating the code and their legal advice, however it’s very common in the industry for Apache licensed projects to incorporate BSD licensed works. For example many of the Apache Software Foundation’s projects do this." So I'm still not sure if the BSD-licensed AWS S3 code would be acceptable for inclusion in libcloud or not. If anybody on this list has any guidance, please let me know. Grig On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Jed Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Eric Woods <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Unfortunately I can't answer since it's a legal matter. Do you have legal >> counsel available to determine the licensing compatibility? Paul, Jerry are >> you familiar with these licensing issues or how to proceed? >> > > It is my understanding - and I might be wrong - that as part of working with > the ASF (maybe it's an incubator restriction), all files checked in must be > licensed under the Apache License. > > -- > Jed Smith > [email protected] >
