Dear Larry, Thank you very much for your answer. I will forward your email to our legal team, and add Apache v2 to the list of cleared licenses.
Have a nice weekend, Antoine [image: PrestaShop] <https://www.prestashop.com/?utm_source=signature&utm_medium=e-mail&utm_campaign=emails-signatures> Antoine Thomas aka ttoine Developer Advocate t: +33 (0)6 63 13 79 06 [email protected] On Fri, 8 Nov 2019 at 16:36, Lawrence Rosen <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Antoine, > > > > I saw your posting on license-discuss@ and read your email below. You are > perfectly right: There is no problem aggregating Apache and OSL code. Both > licenses allow it. I stand completely by my earlier blog posting on this > topic. > > > > I remain surprised that there was any reluctance even for non-lawyers to > confirm that on license-discuss@. Both licenses are perfectly clear that > only *derivative works* of OSL must be released under the OSL, and ASL > doesn't care at all. > > > > Best regards, Larry > > > > Lawrence Rosen > > Rosenlaw (www.rosenlaw.com) > > LinkedIn: LawrenceRosen > > 3001 King Ranch Rd., Ukiah, CA 95482 > > Cell: 707-478-8932 > > This email is licensed under CC-BY-4.0 > <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>. Please copy freely. [image: > https://licensebuttons.net/l/by/4.0/88x31.png] > > > > *From:* Antoine Thomas <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Friday, November 8, 2019 4:28 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* OSL, Apache and PrestaShop > > > > Dear Lawrence, > > > > I am contacting you for in the past, you have answered an interview about > the OSL and the AFL published on PrestaShop blog ( > https://www.prestashop.com/en/blog/interview-lawrence-rosen-author-open-software-licence > ) > > > > In this interview, you state that, I quote, "The OSL/AFL licenses intend > to eliminate such confusion. These licenses do not affect independently > written code at all, no matter how aggregated." And, at PrestaShop, we > would need to have a few precisions. > > > > To give you a bit of context, I am currently working for the PrestaShop > company, and I do my best to study and improve the maturity of the > PrestaShop project, with the support of our legal team, the developers, and > other teams. One of the big taks is the legal compliance: this topic is > more and more important today, because more and more companies want to use > open source software, but they don't want to take risks for their business. > So, after a review of the license all the dependencies and sub-dependencies > of the project, we found that most are distributed with MIT or BSD. > > > > However, there are a few libraries distributed with the Apache v2 license, > and, currently, we are not sure if this is ok to ship them in the > PrestaShop installer. We know that Magento, who uses OSL too, are shipping > Apache v2 libraries, like some from Elastic. So, it might be good. But, our > legal team can't find a clear confirmation that this is possible, and that > it does not represent a compliance failure. > > > > When I read your interview, and other documents about OSL, my feeling is > that the OSL allows to distribute the code with any aggregated software > (e.g dependencies), and does not require to change their license. And that, > of course, only derivative work of the code in OSL must be in OSL. But, I > am not a lawyer, and our legal team is looking for a clear statement. > > > > That is why, recently, I sent a question about this problem to the OSI > mailing list, where the answer was, to make it short: "ask a lawyer". Then, > I thought that you were certainly the best person to confirm what is the > right way to aggregate libraries in an OSL project, and what are the > compatible licenses. And so, in a way, that would also clarify what you > told in this old interview. > > > > So, if you could provide some clarification in an answer, or links to > already existing resources, that would be a great help for the PrestaShop > project and its users. > > > > Of course, if you need more details or information, please let know. I > will be available. > > > > Looking forward to hearing from you, > > > > Antoine > > > > [image: PrestaShop] > <https://www.prestashop.com/?utm_source=signature&utm_medium=e-mail&utm_campaign=emails-signatures> > > *Antoine Thomas aka ttoine* > > Developer Advocate > > t: +33 (0)6 63 13 79 06 > > [email protected] > > >
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