On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Tom Hobbs <[email protected]> wrote: > Looks fine to me. MIT and ASF licenses are compatible and according > to the Apache site you've done all the right things.
This is correct. MIT X license contains very similar language, and in fact prior to choosing Apache license for Jini, Sun was leaning stronger towards the MIT license... Additionally, AFAIK, the license restrictions applies to 'distribution' and not for 'usage'. So, if for instance, the above tool would have been GPL (clearly prohibited) but only needed as a tool to build the source, then we list this as a System Requirement (similar to an operating system or a compiler) with instructions for the downstream user how to obtain it. Cheers -- Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer http://www.qi4j.org - New Energy for Java I live here; http://tinyurl.com/3xugrbk I work here; http://tinyurl.com/24svnvk I relax here; http://tinyurl.com/2cgsug
