| Tony Blanchard 2005-07-24, 2:45 am |
| Maybe the HSQLDB and its license would be better than sleepycat ones :
http://hsqldb.org/web/hsqlLicense.html
Maybe it is a little bit more complex tha JE ...
Tony
Niclas Hedhman a écrit :
>On Sunday 24 July 2005 11:54, Alex Karasulu wrote:
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>IANAL, but a similar discussion has recently been up on the legal-discuss@
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>Essentially, at the moment, ASF projects can not use/distribute something that
>adds additional constraint on the downstream users, than the current Apache
>license. Hence, the restrictions on LGPL/GPL and other Open/Free licenses
>that we can depend on.
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>Now, you mentioned elsewhere Subversion, and considering that many of the
>contributors are Apache folks, and ASF is one of the key promoters of Svn "in
>real life", doesn't it strike you as "odd" why Subversion wasn't developed
>within ASF?? Could it be related?
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>In any event, if there are GPL-like options, one choice is to create an
>external project elsewhere, which contains the constraints and that project
>"pulls in" the Apache DS, and that would more or less require an additional
>solution (current?) within the Apache DS project, so it is not 'incomplete'.
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>Any "exception" from Sleepycat, will most likely require a CCLA/ICLA on the
>codebase in question, to enable the standard downstream usages of Apache
>codebases.
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>Cheers
>Niclas
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