[jira] Commented: (LEGAL-24) Scripts, source, and Reciprocal Licenses

["Henri Yandell (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Henri Yandell commented on LEGAL-24:
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I think the main reason for this was that there is less likelyhood of a binary being modified, therefore much less times in which we'd have to be concerned about how much of our code was under another license. The manifests in category B licenses is a good example; they are under the copyleft license but *shrug* we didn't care.

So for a javascript MPL file, I think we would be happy for any modifications to that file to remain under MPL. No big deal imo. As long as things are very well described, and we avoid building a new product on that MPL library, tis good. So I think we want to discourage forking, even more than usual, and that every file under a category B should be listed in the README.

Questions from the above for brevity:

* What reasons do we have to say no to Category B source?
* Any value in strongly discouraging forking/modifications?
* Do we need any higher level of documentation in the project to point out the licensing of the file?

> Scripts, source, and Reciprocal Licenses
> ----------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LEGAL-24
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-24
>             Project: Legal Discuss
>          Issue Type: Question
>            Reporter: Sam Ruby
>
> 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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