Re: open source licensing of maemo 5 example code MIT vs GPL
On Sat, 2009-08-29 at 11:19 +, gary liquid wrote: When I went looking, I find many are licensed under a permissive MIT license. this is great and open source friendly, but my application is written under the GPL. I am not a licensing expert, so hopefully one of you guys will be able to help. is it possible to use and embed pieces of these examples into liqbase or would they need recreating from scratch? Yes, this license is chosen to pretty much let you do whatever you like with the example code. -- murr...@murrayc.com www.murrayc.com www.openismus.com ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: open source licensing of maemo 5 example code MIT vs GPL
Like Murray said, you can use MIT code with your GPL code. When dealing with licensing issues, if your application is GPL licensed you should look for the GPL-compatible licenses list: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses Cheers, -- Joaquim Rocha Murray Cumming wrote: On Sat, 2009-08-29 at 11:19 +, gary liquid wrote: When I went looking, I find many are licensed under a permissive MIT license. this is great and open source friendly, but my application is written under the GPL. I am not a licensing expert, so hopefully one of you guys will be able to help. is it possible to use and embed pieces of these examples into liqbase or would they need recreating from scratch? Yes, this license is chosen to pretty much let you do whatever you like with the example code. ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: open source licensing of maemo 5 example code MIT vs GPL
heh i answered this myself almost as soon as I asked. im embarrassed it got brought back up, but thankful to you both for reaffirming it the licenses are indeed compatible and its a great thing :) oss ftw! the examples are kickass, thanks to all for putting them together, any chance they be compiled up and made available into the repo so people can just play and experiment even before they have setup full devkit :) is that required/worth doing? gary On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Joaquim Rocha jro...@igalia.com wrote: Like Murray said, you can use MIT code with your GPL code. When dealing with licensing issues, if your application is GPL licensed you should look for the GPL-compatible licenses list: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses Cheers, -- Joaquim Rocha Murray Cumming wrote: On Sat, 2009-08-29 at 11:19 +, gary liquid wrote: When I went looking, I find many are licensed under a permissive MIT license. this is great and open source friendly, but my application is written under the GPL. I am not a licensing expert, so hopefully one of you guys will be able to help. is it possible to use and embed pieces of these examples into liqbase or would they need recreating from scratch? Yes, this license is chosen to pretty much let you do whatever you like with the example code. ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: open source licensing of maemo 5 example code MIT vs GPL
haha maybe i should have opened my eyes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License /thread before it even started On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 11:19 AM, gary liquid liq...@gmail.com wrote: hi, I am interested in picking up some of the examples from the maemoexamples collection provided by nokia. ( https://garage.maemo.org/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/trunk/?root=maemoexamples) When I went looking, I find many are licensed under a permissive MIT license. this is great and open source friendly, but my application is written under the GPL. I am not a licensing expert, so hopefully one of you guys will be able to help. is it possible to use and embed pieces of these examples into liqbase or would they need recreating from scratch? gary example license: https://garage.maemo.org/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/trunk/example_desktop_widget/COPYING?revision=259root=maemoexamplesview=markup ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: open source licensing of maemo 5 example code MIT vs GPL
I'm not an expert, so I'd wait for another opinion, but take a look at this: http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/#Expat I think it's the same license, and they say they're compatible. 2009/8/29 gary liquid liq...@gmail.com: hi, I am interested in picking up some of the examples from the maemoexamples collection provided by nokia. ( https://garage.maemo.org/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/trunk/?root=maemoexamples ) When I went looking, I find many are licensed under a permissive MIT license. this is great and open source friendly, but my application is written under the GPL. I am not a licensing expert, so hopefully one of you guys will be able to help. is it possible to use and embed pieces of these examples into liqbase or would they need recreating from scratch? gary example license: https://garage.maemo.org/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/trunk/example_desktop_widget/COPYING?revision=259root=maemoexamplesview=markup ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: open source licensing of maemo 5 example code MIT vs GPL
I believe MIT and GPL are compatible: See http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/index_html#X11License This license is sometimes called the /MIT license/, but that term is misleading, since MIT has used many licenses for software Simón Pena wrote: I'm not an expert, so I'd wait for another opinion, but take a look at this: http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/#Expat I think it's the same license, and they say they're compatible. 2009/8/29 gary liquid liq...@gmail.com: hi, I am interested in picking up some of the examples from the maemoexamples collection provided by nokia. ( https://garage.maemo.org/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/trunk/?root=maemoexamples ) When I went looking, I find many are licensed under a permissive MIT license. this is great and open source friendly, but my application is written under the GPL. I am not a licensing expert, so hopefully one of you guys will be able to help. is it possible to use and embed pieces of these examples into liqbase or would they need recreating from scratch? gary example license: https://garage.maemo.org/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/trunk/example_desktop_widget/COPYING?revision=259root=maemoexamplesview=markup ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
