Due to discussion, these changes will not be made.
On 12/23/2015 02:09 PM, Kay Schenk wrote:
> I'm looking at the latest version of the Third Party Licensing
> Policy for the ASF at:
> http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html
>
> Here it spells out which licenses are acceptable for use in ASF
> products, and which, I am assuming can be used "as is" with proper
> attribution where required. This document does not mention obtaining
> permission from an author or entity the way our current project
> information does.
>
> See: http://openoffice.apache.org/contributing-code.html
>
> I would like to change this paragraph in the above document--
>
> --from
>
> "The code must be under the Apache License 2.0 and it must be
> contributed by or with permission of the original author(s) of the
> code. Dependencies on third party libraries should be discussed on
> the dev list, to see how these can be brought into conformance with
> ASF policy."
>
> --to
>
> "The code must either be under the Apache License 2.0, or must be
> licensed with a license compatible with Apache License 2.0. See
> http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html for compatible licenses.
> Other proposed code that does not meet either of these criteria
> should be discussed on the "dev" list to see how it can be brought
> into conformance with the ASF policy."
>
> If there are no objections to this change, I will put it into place
> on Dec. 26th.
>
>
>
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