On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Chad Walters <[email protected]>wrote:
> Doesn't everything in the codebase get the Apache license? > Third-party dependencies can be non-Apache-license as long as they're compatible: http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html It looks like LGPL is *not* allowed - we should probably look at the OCamlMakefile and setup.rb files to see if we need to rewrite them "from scratch" - my guess is someone just cped existing ones as templates and already rewrote them for Thrift's use case -Todd > Chad > > ________________________________________ > From: Todd Lipcon [[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, August 09, 2009 4:48 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: PATCH for LICENSE and NOTICE files > > Hi Joe, > > All patches for thrift have to go through the JIRA - this is an ASF policy > so that you can click the checkbox that grants the ASF the rights to > include > your code in their product. Given that this patch is for license text and > not code, it's a bit silly, but that's policy for ya :) > > Can you make a JIRA and upload the same patch? > > Thanks > -Todd > > On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Joe Schaefer <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi, I'm new to thrift, and wanted to start off by offering you > > a patch that will help get things ready for release. AFAICT > > the licenses in the codebase boil down to the ASL, LGPL, and MIT > > license, so I've added those to the LICENSE file. I also removed > > some unnecessary language from NOTICE. > > > > Patch is attached, WDYT? > > > > > > >
