Re: Taking over development of DataViews

2007-04-12 Thread Andrus Adamchik
On Apr 12, 2007, at 3:03 PM, Adrian Wiesmann wrote: My problem is less in dual licencing our changes than in integrating the DataViews (which is Apache licence) into our own tool (which is GPL). But as far as I see nobody from Cayenne has a problem with us doing so and therefor I suggest

Re: Taking over development of DataViews

2007-04-12 Thread Ahmed Mohombe
Per recent discussion on Apache Legal list... There's a nice illustration of OS licenses: http://blogs.sun.com/chandan/entry/copyrights_licenses_and_cddl_illustrated It would be nice if Apache would be also there :). It also explains the header problem with GPL :). Ahmed.

Re: Taking over development of DataViews

2007-04-12 Thread Andrus Adamchik
On Apr 12, 2007, at 6:29 PM, Adrian Wiesmann wrote: The legaly easiest solution would be to just extract the DataView from Cayenne and create a new lib licenced under the ASL. We can and should make it a standalone module within Cayenne. This means a standalone Eclipse project, separate

Re: Taking over development of DataViews - Licenses

2007-04-12 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Apr 12, 2007, at 11:00 AM, Andrus Adamchik wrote: On Apr 12, 2007, at 6:48 PM, Mike Kienenberger wrote: On 4/12/07, Adrian Wiesmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The technicaly easiest solution would be if Cayenne agrees in our project taking exlusively (and only for our SOBF Tool) the data

Re: Taking over development of DataViews - Licenses

2007-04-12 Thread Mike Kienenberger
Thanks, Jim. That's very helpful. I was under the impression that GPL had restrictions that would prevent this, but after reading through the GPL again, I don't see anything that stands out. I guess it'd be the same thing as the original contributor dual licensing the code since there's

Re: Taking over development of DataViews

2007-04-12 Thread Andrus Adamchik
On Apr 12, 2007, at 7:22 PM, Adrian Wiesmann wrote: We can and should make it a standalone module within Cayenne. This means a standalone Eclipse project, separate from the rest of the framework. OK, let's make nails with heads (as we say over here). Please make this split on the Cayenne

Re: Taking over development of DataViews - Licenses

2007-04-12 Thread Jim Jagielski
If going from GPL - AL, then it would require that each and every contributor to the GPL codebase would need to certify that they approve a relicensing from GPL to AL. From AL-GPL is easy The reverse is hard but do-able (since it requires explicit contributor approval) On Apr 12, 2007, at 11:29