Re: [License-discuss] [Non-DoD Source] Re: US Army Research Laboratory Open Source License proposal

2016-07-25 Thread Richard Eckart de Castilho
Hi Cem, > On 25.07.2016, at 18:41, Karan, Cem F CIV USARMY RDECOM ARL (US) > wrote: > > OK at this point I want to start another discussion about the license > (attached once again, with the minor correction of stripping out the word > 'Apache', which I'd left in

Re: [License-discuss] [Non-DoD Source] Re: US Army Research Laboratory Open Source License proposal

2016-07-25 Thread Richard Eckart de Castilho
Hi Cem, > On 25.07.2016, at 18:41, Karan, Cem F CIV USARMY RDECOM ARL (US) > wrote: > > OK at this point I want to start another discussion about the license > (attached once again, with the minor correction of stripping out the word > 'Apache', which I'd left in

[License-discuss] Option to fall back from GPL to ASL

2015-08-25 Thread Richard Eckart de Castilho
Hi all, I am relatively new here, yet this seems to be the most appropriate venue to ask a question that has been nagging me for a while now. I'm involved in a project that consists of multiple modules, most are ASL licensed, but some are GPL licensed. The reason why we use GPL for a few

Re: [License-discuss] Category B licenses at Apache

2015-08-20 Thread Richard Eckart de Castilho
Hi Larry, On 17.08.2015, at 21:20, Lawrence Rosen lro...@rosenlaw.com wrote: snip But then that Policy makes the following strange explanation for Category B and its enforcement conditions at ASF: By including only the object/binary form, there is less exposed surface area of the

Re: [License-discuss] Is what's made with Open Source, Open Source?

2015-06-13 Thread Richard Eckart de Castilho
First: I am not a lawyer just an interested bystander with an opinion and a problem to keep his mouth shut. So Rapid applications are basically complex configuration files. Let's say you create a specification for this type configuration files and Rapid is the reference implementation. Let's

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

2015-05-28 Thread Richard Eckart de Castilho
On 27.05.2015, at 20:17, Lawrence Rosen lro...@rosenlaw.com wrote: If we amended the proposal to leave out the GPL licenses, would that calm your concerns? I'd really hate to do that at Apache for that set of generous FOSS licenses, but fear is fear Apache didn't cause this fear of