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Posted to legal-discuss@apache.org by Shane Curcuru <as...@shanecurcuru.org> on 2015/05/10 20:43:07 UTC
Re: [SPAM?] Proposal: Apache Third Party License Policy
(members@ -> bcc)
A note to readers: the proper place to bring a suggested change to the
ASF's long-held licensing policy is to the Legal Affairs list, not to
legal-discuss@.
Separately, the below email is merely a proposal by a *single* Apache
community member, and in no way represents official policy at the ASF.
In particular, Apache projects are reminded to follow the official third
party licensing policy, which remains unmodified:
http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-a
- Shane
On 5/10/15 2:32 PM, Lawrence Rosen wrote:
> DRAFT: Apache Third Party License Policy (May 10, 2015)
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> Apache projects have long been */universal donors/*//to many other
> software projects around the world. We are proud of that. We intend to
> continue that tradition by requiring that all software aggregations
> distributed by Apache Software Foundation will be licensed to the public
> under the *Apache License 2.0*. This means that all of our licensees
> around the world are free to:
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> · Use Apache software for any purpose.
>
> · Make and distribute copies.
>
> · Create and distribute derivative works.
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> · Access and use the source code.
>
> · Combine Apache and other software.
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>
>
> In order to foster our Foundation community ethic to ensure the widest
> free participation in the open source software community, Apache has now
> decided to become also a */universal acceptor/* of other open source
> software licensed to us from around the world.
>
>
>
> When technically appropriate for that software in the judgment of the
> PMC, Apache projects may accept contributions under ANY OSI-approved
> open source license. Such software may now be included in Apache
> aggregations that, as described above, will be licensed to the public
> under *Apache License 2.0*.
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>
>
> Because Apache projects may now incorporate third party open source
> software into our software aggregations, we have added the following
> procedures for Apache software releases:
>
>
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> · Because all Apache project contributions will be licensed to
> Apache under an OSI-approved open source license, the above list of five
> fundamental software freedoms continues to apply to all Apache software.
> Downstream users and re-distributors of Apache software can continue to
> incorporate all of our open source software into their own products
> *_unmodified_* without incurring any special derivative work reciprocity
> obligations.
>
>
>
> · All releases containing any non-Apache open source licensed
> contributions will be explicitly identified in a NOTICE file that our
> projects will create. The PMC is responsible to ensure that the text in
> the NOTICE file expressly satisfies the notice and disclosure
> requirements of all relevant contribution licenses.
>
>
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> · *_Modifiers_*and re-distributors of Apache software will now
> need to read the NOTICE files to determine whether they have any
> derivative work reciprocity requirements for specific contributions.
>
>
>
> You may influence the inclusion or exclusion of specific third party
> contributions under OSI-approved licenses by joining the Apache project.
> All such decisions are made by Apache projects in public.
>
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Re: [SPAM?] Proposal: Apache Third Party License Policy
Posted by Chris Mattmann <ma...@apache.org>.
+1 I was going to say the same thing. Legal-discuss is public,
whereas legal-internal isn’t I think we should discuss on legal-discuss@
and/or JIRA.
Cheers,
Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: Sam Ruby <ru...@intertwingly.net>
Reply-To: "legal-discuss@apache.org" <le...@apache.org>
Date: Sunday, May 10, 2015 at 12:02 PM
To: Legal Discuss <le...@apache.org>
Subject: Re: [SPAM?] Proposal: Apache Third Party License Policy
>On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 2:43 PM, Shane Curcuru <as...@shanecurcuru.org>
>wrote:
>> (members@ -> bcc)
>>
>> A note to readers: the proper place to bring a suggested change to the
>> ASF's long-held licensing policy is to the Legal Affairs list, not to
>> legal-discuss@.
>
>Actually, this is a fine list to discuss proposals. I'd also suggest
>the use of JIRA: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/legal
>
>- Sam Ruby
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Re: [SPAM?] Proposal: Apache Third Party License Policy
Posted by Sam Ruby <ru...@intertwingly.net>.
On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 2:43 PM, Shane Curcuru <as...@shanecurcuru.org> wrote:
> (members@ -> bcc)
>
> A note to readers: the proper place to bring a suggested change to the
> ASF's long-held licensing policy is to the Legal Affairs list, not to
> legal-discuss@.
Actually, this is a fine list to discuss proposals. I'd also suggest
the use of JIRA: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/legal
- Sam Ruby
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