Re: Spice License

Berin Loritsch <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.jakarta.avalon.phoenix.devel
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Leo Simons wrote:
> Leo Sutic wrote:
> 
>>> From: Stephen McConnell [mailto:[email protected]] 
>>
>>   /*
>>    * Copyright (C) The Spice Group. All rights reserved.
>>    *
>>    * This software is published under the terms of the Spice
>>    * Software License version 1.1, a copy of which has been included
>>    * with this distribution in the LICENSE.txt file.
>>
> I am not sure whether it is okay to reassign copyright like this; since 
> Peter is the original author of excalibur-cli I suspect it is legally 
> defensible. I do think I think it is immoral, esp. when not discussed 
> with the ASF first, but this stuff always really confuses me.

Legally, I believe he needs to advertise where the code is based from.
The ASL is the BSD variant that has the advertising clause.

Other than that he can fork all he wants to fork (legally speaking).
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