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Posted to legal-discuss@apache.org by ba...@apache.org on 2009/06/06 06:24:59 UTC
svn commit: r782189 - in /infrastructure/site/trunk:
docs/legal/resolved.html xdocs/legal/resolved.xml
Author: bayard
Date: Sat Jun 6 04:24:57 2009
New Revision: 782189
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=782189&view=rev
Log:
Adding MLPL to Category X
Modified:
infrastructure/site/trunk/docs/legal/resolved.html
infrastructure/site/trunk/xdocs/legal/resolved.xml
Modified: infrastructure/site/trunk/docs/legal/resolved.html
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/infrastructure/site/trunk/docs/legal/resolved.html?rev=782189&r1=782188&r2=782189&view=diff
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--- infrastructure/site/trunk/docs/legal/resolved.html [utf-8] (original)
+++ infrastructure/site/trunk/docs/legal/resolved.html [utf-8] Sat Jun 6 04:24:57 2009
@@ -128,6 +128,7 @@
<li><a href="http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/NPL-1.0.html">NPL 1.0</a>/<a href="http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/NPL-1.1.html">NPL 1.1</a></li>
<li><a href="http://doc.trolltech.com/3.0/license.html">QPL</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/sleepycat.php">Sleepycat License</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/cc300389.aspx#MLPL">Microsoft Limited Public License</a></li>
</ul>
<p>This list is colloquially known as the <i>Category X</i> list. Further discussion of disallowed licenses:</p>
<dl>
@@ -162,6 +163,12 @@
work.
</dd>
+ <dt>Field of use restrictions</dt>
+ <dd>Some licenses restrict the uses to which software licensed under them may be be used.
+ An example is the Microsoft Limited Public License which limits the software or
+ derivatives to the Windows platform. Java licenses have often forbidden the use of
+ the software in particular environments (air traffic control, nuclear facilities etc).
+ </dd>
</dl>
<p>* <b>Can Apache projects have external dependencies on Ruby licensed works?</b></p>
<p>A project written primarily and obviously in Ruby can have a dependency either on Matz's Ruby Interpreter (MRI),
Modified: infrastructure/site/trunk/xdocs/legal/resolved.xml
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/infrastructure/site/trunk/xdocs/legal/resolved.xml?rev=782189&r1=782188&r2=782189&view=diff
==============================================================================
--- infrastructure/site/trunk/xdocs/legal/resolved.xml [utf-8] (original)
+++ infrastructure/site/trunk/xdocs/legal/resolved.xml [utf-8] Sat Jun 6 04:24:57 2009
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@
<li><a href="http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/NPL-1.0.html">NPL 1.0</a>/<a href="http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/NPL-1.1.html">NPL 1.1</a></li>
<li><a href="http://doc.trolltech.com/3.0/license.html">QPL</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/sleepycat.php">Sleepycat License</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/cc300389.aspx#MLPL">Microsoft Limited Public License</a></li>
</ul>
<p>This list is colloquially known as the <i>Category X</i> list. Further discussion of disallowed licenses:</p>
@@ -113,6 +114,12 @@
work.
</dd>
+ <dt>Field of use restrictions</dt>
+ <dd>Some licenses restrict the uses to which software licensed under them may be be used.
+ An example is the Microsoft Limited Public License which limits the software or
+ derivatives to the Windows platform. Java licenses have often forbidden the use of
+ the software in particular environments (air traffic control, nuclear facilities etc).
+ </dd>
</dl>
<p>* <b>Can Apache projects have external dependencies on Ruby licensed works?</b></p>
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