Re: Taking over development of DataViews - Licenses

From: Mike Kienenberger (mkienen..mail.com)
Date: Thu Apr 12 2007 - 11:21:55 EDT

  • Next message: Andrus Adamchik: "Re: Taking over development of DataViews - Licenses"

    Thanks, Jim.

    That's very helpful. I was under the impression that GPL had
    restrictions that would prevent this, but after reading through the
    GPL again, I don't see anything that stands out. I guess it'd be the
    same thing as the original contributor dual licensing the code since
    there's nothing in AL to prohibit it.

    On 4/12/07, Jim Jagielski <ji..agunet.com> wrote:
    >
    > 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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