Thanks a lot for the link. It really seems, that the BSD, MIT and Apache license are very similar and open.
So I now can start on trying to get Shindig working inside of NoseRub. I'm excited :-) Dirk On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Paul Lindner<[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not an expert by any means, but I believe that you can redistribute an > Apache 2.0 licensed work without much hassle. It's covered somewhat here: > http://oreilly.com/catalog/osfreesoft/book/ch02.pdf > > > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:14 PM, Dirk Olbertz <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm the lead developer of NoseRub (http://noserub.com), an open, >> distributed social network and would love to have OpenSocial support >> in it. >> >> Now, the easiest way to achieve this would be to integrate Shindig >> into the application. But as Shindig uses the Apache license and I >> choosed the MIT license for NoseRub, I'm not quite sure if I'm >> actually allowed to bundle Shindig with NoseRub, so that the user who >> is installing NoseRub has everything running out of the box. >> >> It is my understanding, that it would be no problem to let the user >> (who installs NoseRub) install Shindig along and giving him some kind >> of documentation on how to do it, so that it works with NoseRub, >> right? >> >> But I'd rather go with option one and bundle Shindig with NoseRub. >> Anyone here who can enlighten my on this issue? >> >> Thanks, >> Dirk >> >
