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[jira] Commented: (LEGAL-24) Scripts, source, and Reciprocal
Licenses
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Henri Yandell commented on LEGAL-24:
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>From Sam on an FCKEditor thread last Jan 08:
"Roy said it a while back a lot more eloquently than I ever could, but when we are dealing with artifacts are customarily provided and consumed in source form, then us blindly applying a rule that we avoid licenses that requires that such artifacts be provided in source form is nonsensical and counter-productive. "
I agree. We want to say "don't modify", and we allow binary because there is less chance of modification. The risk of modification for a category B license is that our modifications go out under that license (as with the OSGI changes that we've allowed). How about the following:
* Category B. Use unmodified. Raise on legal-discuss or open a JIRA if you wish to add to or modify one of these works. See the following list of allowed modifications:
** OSGi example.
I'm also thinking that modifications should be noted clearly in the NOTICE of the Apache project.
> Scripts, source, and Reciprocal Licenses
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> Key: LEGAL-24
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-24
> Project: Legal Discuss
> Issue Type: Question
> Reporter: Sam Ruby
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> The current draft of the Third Party Licensing Policy (0.53) contains the following text under the section concerning Reciprocal Licenses:
> Note that works written in a scripting language without a binary form cannot be included in any ASF product under one of these licenses (see Transition and Exceptions).
> We need to decide if this truly is necessary.
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Re: [jira] Commented: (LEGAL-24) Scripts, source, and Reciprocal
Licenses
Posted by Sam Ruby <ru...@intertwingly.net>.
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 3:02 AM, Henri Yandell (JIRA)<ji...@apache.org> wrote:
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> * Category B. Use unmodified. Raise on legal-discuss or open a JIRA if you wish to add to or modify one of these works. See the following list of allowed modifications:
> ** OSGi example.
Not sure where that text goes, but I support the idea.
I'd suggest leaving the text requesting a "prominent label". I'd also
suggest that the requirement for object/binary form shouldn't
completely go away, merely that it be demoted to a suggestion, and
"where possible/appropriate" or somesuch be added.
- Sam Ruby
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