[Embedlets-dev] License?
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From: Andrzej J. T. <an...@ch...> - 2003-02-13 17:27:11
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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 |