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Posted to legal-discuss@apache.org by Jools <jo...@gmail.com> on 2009/03/31 11:10:34 UTC
A question regarding forking an apache project
Please excuse my rather uneducated posting here, I'm just trying to ensure
that I don't breach the conditions of the
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
I'm currently looking at forking an apache project, which is currently under
this license, if I wish to publish the project do I need to include the
original source code in the release ?
I'm going to be changing the package names of the many of the classes in the
project and also a fair bit of the code, at which point does it become new
code, rather than derived ?
Any help gratefully received.
Regards,
Jools Enticknap
Re: A question regarding forking an apache project
Posted by Jools <jo...@gmail.com>.
Mark,
2009/3/31 Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org>
> Jools wrote:
>
> IANAL and speaking personally, not for the ASF...
>
> > Please excuse my rather uneducated posting here, I'm just trying to
> ensure
> > that I don't breach the conditions of the
> > http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
> >
> > I'm currently looking at forking an apache project, which is currently
> under
> > this license, if I wish to publish the project do I need to include the
> > original source code in the release ?
> No.
>
Thanks for clearing that up.
>
> > I'm going to be changing the package names of the many of the classes in
> the
> > project and also a fair bit of the code, at which point does it become
> new
> > code, rather than derived ?
> New code == start from a clean sheet of paper
> Derived == start from ASF code
>
Ok, great. That's cleared things up for me.
Cheers,
--Jools
Re: A question regarding forking an apache project
Posted by Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org>.
Jools wrote:
IANAL and speaking personally, not for the ASF...
> Please excuse my rather uneducated posting here, I'm just trying to ensure
> that I don't breach the conditions of the
> http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
>
> I'm currently looking at forking an apache project, which is currently under
> this license, if I wish to publish the project do I need to include the
> original source code in the release ?
No.
> I'm going to be changing the package names of the many of the classes in the
> project and also a fair bit of the code, at which point does it become new
> code, rather than derived ?
New code == start from a clean sheet of paper
Derived == start from ASF code
> Any help gratefully received.
HTH,
Mark
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