Giovanni,
IANAL but one comment on SparQLed - you should probably state what the
license situation for any generated query in the same way that parser
generators or compilers do. They usually say "the output is not
licensed". I think that unless you do this, the output of the editor is
under the license of editor itself, which is currently AGPL3.
Other than that, I agree with Simone. If there is connection to Any23,
then the project can accept a software grant; if there isn't a separate
incubator proposal is cleaner.
You've said you are going to license under the Apache license - you
don't need to submit to Apache to do that. You can use the license now
- the details are given in the appendix to the ASL 2.0 license.
Andy
Giovanni,
I took a quick look at the github, and saw a JeniT tweet.
I see that "This software contains code from the Flint SPARQL Editor
project. " (IIRC that is an MIT license).
Other bits say: "This software is copyright Aduna" which is 3-cluase
BSD-type.
Also, "works supported by the European FP7 project LOD2 (257943)." --
presumably DERI have copyright but is it exclusive to DERI?
Whichever route is taken, this will need to be clarified and it's easier
sooner rather than later.
I don't immediately see any blockers. The third party copyright
involved needs handling correctly but the two I see are "Category A",
and an Apache project can include source code with the necessary text in
NOTICE and LICENSE files.
Andy
