Re: [License-discuss] Proposal: Apache Third Party License Policy

2015-05-25 Thread Lawrence Rosen
Hen, An important part of the proposed Apache Third Party License Policy is that we finally leave the sad domain of FOSS license compatibility determination to our friends and experts at OSI. If we have a question about whether a specific FOSS license infects Apache code, ask OSI at

Re: [License-discuss] Proposal: Apache Third Party License Policy

2015-05-25 Thread Lawrence Rosen
Hen, the OSI task of license analysis in this context is trivial. ALL FOSS license are compatible with ALv2 for aggregations. But today is a US holiday, so let's give some OSI board members an opportunity to comment. /Larry From: Henri Yandell [mailto:bay...@apache.org] Sent:

Re: [License-discuss] Disclosure of patents by Apache projects

2015-05-25 Thread John Cowan
Lawrence Rosen scripsit: Willful blindness (sometimes called ignorance of law, willful ignorance or contrived ignorance or Nelsonian knowledge) is a term used in law to describe a situation in which a person seeks to avoid civil or criminal liability for a wrongful act by intentionally

Re: [License-discuss] Proposal: Apache Third Party License Policy

2015-05-25 Thread Henri Yandell
I don't see how you are going to do that unless the OSI are going to maintain complex lists. If this is the OSI are launching a license compatibility service, then there would be something to discuss at Apache. As it is, your proposal is becoming well trod ground around moving B(inary-only) list