[Embedlets-dev] License?

[Andrzej J. T. <an...@ch...>]

OK...I'm hammering out some preliminary interfaces and base classes to get 
us going.

But before I can really make any progress, we need to decide what kind of 
license we want to release this stuff under:

Apache? 
GPL?
LGPL?
Some other?

So that the appropriate header comments will go in each source file, and the 
correct license.txt file will be included.

The Apache license lets anyone do what they want, so long as they include 
the license terms, copyright and acknowledgement to the embedlets.org 
group...so it's pretty flexible.  I'm leaning towards this one.  It would also be 
nice to become an "official" Apache project some time down the road....lots of 
benefits to going that route, and if we use the Apache license terms in the 
beginning this would be easier.

GPL is nice, but it forces all other implementations to be open source as well 
(it's viral in that regard).  LGPL is more for libraries than containers so 
probably doesn't fit well.

One issue is how to attribute the copyright since we don't have a legal entity 
like the Apache Foundation or embedlets.org that can legally own the 
copyright.



Andrzej Jan Taramina
Chaeron Corporation: Enterprise System Solutions
http://www.chaeron.com