--- Nicola Ken Barozzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Berin Loritsch wrote: > > Stephen McConnell wrote: > ... > >> Also - what/where are the license details related to the Concurrency > >> package? > > > > Public domain. (I.e. no license, no control). > > Hmmm... > > I don't think we can use packages with no license at all. IANAL, but > wouldn't it mean that no license == no grant of use? But actually it's > in the public domain, so it would be ridiculous that the author doesn't > it want to be used. > > Can we rely on public domain packages and put them in CVS? > > -- > Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Perhaps it's not my place to chime in on this one and IANAL as well, but I wanted to add some clarifications: "public domain" is a legal term meaning "not copyrighted." This means it is free in every sense of the word -- there are no restrictions placed on it whatsoever. However, the catch to public domain is in the warranty clause. All open source/free software licenses have a NO WARRANTY clause which public domain does not carry due to it's lack of a license. From what I understand this leaves public domain open to lawsuits due to bugs. You might want to check the FSF site for some of their take on public domain. However, someone mentioned refactoring EDU.util.concurrent to a different package structure, such as org.apache.... As a user my only concern with that is does it mean Avalon will now support the package? Essentially this would fork the code and util.concurrent is used by many applications in and out of Apache. It'd be nice if I didn't have to have one copy for avalon apps and one copy for other apps. Anyway, just some thoughts, jaaron __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
