Yeah - thanks for clarifying that Jim. I still don't have a 100%
certainty of how a GPL side of it should be handled, but I stand
corrected on the ASF side :-)
Andrus
On Apr 12, 2007, at 7:21 PM, Mike Kienenberger wrote:
> 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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