Re: [Pagekit-devel] re-licence PageKit?

[Boris Z. <bz...@2b...>]

Hi Mike,

Am Dienstag, 6. April 2004 18:37 schrieb mi...@in...:
> I've recently started a new job and want to make use of PageKit in our
> environment, but they only allow use of certain open source licences.
> Apparently PageKit has a custom licence from AnIdea, and at first glance
> it APPEARS that we could use it (seems GPL-like).
>

PageKit is released under the RICOH SOURCE CODE PUBLIC LICENSE. Which is very 
liberal to anybody. Much more liberal than the GPL. It is also OSI Approved.

http://opensource.org/
http://opensource.org/licenses/ricohpl.html
http://www.risource.org/RPL

Basicly it say's do whatever you want with it. Im not responsible for 
anything. Commercial or not. royalty-free.

In contrast to the GPL where you must give back or provide your modifications 
RICOH SOURCE CODE PUBLIC LICENSE does not force you to do so. You can, but 
there is no need to do. 

> I'm wondering if re-licencing PageKit under the Perl Artistic licence or
> maybe the GPL is possible to avoid any legal hassles and future
> reservations about adopting PageKit by other companies?
>

I can not belive that it is a issue for a company, since they do normaly avoid 
to change PageKit, they develop a application that is driven by Pagekit.   
AnIdea have no rights on that ( your ) application even if it does not work 
without PageKit. Beside that, the license allow you to modify PageKit itself 
in any way you like it.

Im not against re-licencing, but I need _very_ strong arguments why RICOH 
SOURCE CODE PUBLIC LICENSE is not enough. Since this might be a lot of hassle 
for me to.

>
> --mike

-- 
Boris