On May 9, 2011, at 2:37 PM, Dov Rosenberg wrote:

> Just having gone thru an extensive software audit of all of the third party 
> licensing that our company uses (including WebObjects and Project Wonder 
> among a zillion other things).

No one's idea of a good time.


> I would like to propose that Project Wonder adopt a more consistent license 
> for the code base. The best licenses for open source products to use so that 
> commercial products can utilize those components are Apache 2.0, BSD, and MIT.

There was some discussion and work on making the core frameworks BSD compliant 
a couple of months back.  That would have been on the Wonder list.


Chuck



> It would be best to include the license file in the download for binary and 
> source for WOProject and Project Wonder. Right now I think these items are 
> under an old NetStruxr license thru objectstyle. It was very difficult to 
> find the license files for Project Wonder and WOProject
> 
> Any component licensed under GPL, LGPL 3.0, EPL, CPL were poison to us and we 
> had to remove them. LGPL v2.1 components sucked less and we were allowed to 
> keep them as long as we didn't modify them in any way.
> 
> Dov Rosenberg
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