[LEGAL] Apache Software License

["Galbreath, Mark" <Ga...@tessco.com>]

The license states that commercial applications built with Struts (or
anything else developed by Apache) must include a copyright
notice/acknowledgment be included either in the software documentation or in
the software itself.  What does "software itself" mean?
 
Public display on a web page?
 
Comment in the source?
 
Mark

Re: [LEGAL] Apache Software License

["Craig R. McClanahan" <cr...@apache.org>]

On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Galbreath, Mark wrote:

> Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 09:23:34 -0400
> From: "Galbreath, Mark" <Ga...@tessco.com>
> Reply-To: Struts Users Mailing List <st...@jakarta.apache.org>
> To: "Struts (E-mail)" <st...@jakarta.apache.org>
> Subject: [LEGAL] Apache Software License
>
> The license states that commercial applications built with Struts (or
> anything else developed by Apache) must include a copyright
> notice/acknowledgment be included either in the software documentation or in
> the software itself.  What does "software itself" mean?
>

"The software itself" would be relevant when you shipped a stand alone
application (like a Swing-based GUI app).  In such cases, you'd commonly
put the attribution on a "Help-->About" menu option.  This doesn't really
apply, however, when you're doing a server side web app and the software
stays on your server.

> Public display on a web page?
>

That's the typical approach for webapps, because that's usually the way
webapps are documented.  If you also support a downloadable documentation
bundle, it should be there as well.

> Comment in the source?

Nice, but not helpful (from a license perspective) unless users of the app
can see your source code.

Since you don't pay for open source software, acknowledgement and credit
are the "method of payment," if you will.  The publicity is the value to
the open source developer -- after all, your programmers already know they
are using it :-).

>
> Mark
>

Craig



--
To unsubscribe, e-mail:   <ma...@jakarta.apache.org>
For additional commands, e-mail: <ma...@jakarta.apache.org>