So with Apache 2.0, you need to apply the license to every file? On 5/13/07, Sean Corfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 5/12/07, Rick Root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If Model Glue was originally under the Lesser GPL... future version > > would be considered derivative works, would they not? > > The author(s) can choose change the license. If you created a > derivative work from the old codebase, it would be covered by LGPL. If > you created a derivative work from the new codebase, it would be > covered by ASL. You can't apply a license change retroactively, so the > old code is always out there under LGPL for those who prefer that > license. > > LGPL is a "directory-based" license - it covers everything in the > directory tree in which the license notice is placed. ASL is a > "file-based" license - it covers those files that explicitly contain > the ASL license notice. That's why LGPL is problematic for systems > that generate code into the directory tree covered by LGPL - it > implicitly covers that generated code which is a real problem for > commercial use (since the generated code also implicitly contains the > user's intellectual property, insofar as it is based on information > provided by the user, such as database schemas etc). Both Model-Glue > and Reactor originally fell into this trap. I haven't downloaded > Reactor lately but I know that Doug was planning to switch to ASL > because of this (anyone know if he has?). >
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