Re: Re: Re: AW: License proposal (Summary)

Xue-Feng Yang <[email protected]> Sat, 10 Jan 2004 13:40:09 -0500 (EST)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.enhydra.barracuda.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
 --- Thorsten_M?r <[email protected]> wrote: 
> 
> First I want to say that I dosn't want to start a
> new huge discussion but I
> would strongly recommend to take another licence
> into account, the Apache
> Licence. Why? First it is also very common and very
> equal to BSD. Second it
> addresses another aspect which I neither found in
> BSD nor LGPL (correct me
> if I'm wrong): The licence would protect the
> integrity and use of the name
> Barracuda. 

So if someone is only interested in the event model
part, he/she must import the other part for his/her
projects?

>In my opinion this is also an argument
> against subversion in
> derivates.
> The second point which I want to recommend
> (irrespective of the licence
> discussion) is to establish a "Contributor License
> Agreement" like the one
> existing in Apache Software Foundation, see
> http://www.apache.org/licenses/#clas. Reason (copyed
> from ASF): "The purpose
> of this agreement is to clearly define the terms
> under which intellectual
> property has been contributed to the ASF and thereby
> allow us to defend the
> project should there be a legal dispute regarding
> the software at some
> future time."
> 
> I hope nobody interprets me wrong. I'm not a Apache
> evangelist, I only think
> that they are very modern and sophisticated
> concerning licence topics.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Thorsten
> 
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