Re: Licensing issues including another projects source

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Dave Cramer <dave(at)fastcrypt(dot)com>
Cc: "'Bruce Momjian'" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Licensing issues including another projects source
Date: 2001-11-04 13:04:54
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.30.0111022100300.874-100000@peter.localdomain
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Dave Cramer writes:

> It is using the apache licence
>
> http://www.qos.ch/log4jME/LICENSE.txt
>
> It appears that they allow the code to be used in either binary or
> source as long as their licence remains intact

The apache license has an advertising clause, which is not acceptable.
Getting someone to relicense the software is difficult to impossible if
there is a multitude of outside contributors.

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter

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