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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
==============================================================================
--- 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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