Re: Taking over development of DataViews - Licenses

From: Jim Jagielski (ji..aguNET.com)
Date: Thu Apr 12 2007 - 11:09:57 EDT

  • Next message: Adrian Wiesmann: "Re: Taking over development of DataViews"

    On Apr 12, 2007, at 11:00 AM, Andrus Adamchik wrote:

    >
    > On Apr 12, 2007, at 6:48 PM, Mike Kienenberger wrote:
    >
    >> On 4/12/07, Adrian Wiesmann <awiesman..omap.org> wrote:
    >>> The technicaly easiest solution would be if Cayenne agrees in our
    >>> project
    >>> taking exlusively (and only for our SOBF Tool) the data view
    >>> source code
    >>> (and dvmodeler) and relicence it under the GPL. With the
    >>> condition that we
    >>> dual-licence everything we do on the DataViews under the ASL.
    >>> Like that we
    >>> could integrate everything without the need to have a separate lib.
    >>
    >> It's not quite as easy as you'd think. You have to find everyone who
    >> ever worked on the DataViews code, and individually get them to
    >> relicense the code to you. The Cayenne project (nor the ASF) cannot
    >> relicense the code as we don't have the right to do that. Both the
    >> project and ASF can only use the code as it was licensed to them by
    >> the individuals involved.
    >
    >
    > That's a good explanation of how things work.
    >
    >

    Not sure I'm completely sure of what the main point here,
    but the way the AL is constructed is that someone could,
    if they wished, take AL-licensed code and relicense it
    under the GPL, or any other license they wanted. They
    would simply need to adhere to the specification in
    section 4 of the AL.



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