I'm away on holiday at present so just a very quick mail to wrap this up
before I lose connectivity completely.
BACKGROUND: In short Benson wanted to check Clerezza was OK using some
of their code under a BSD licence.
I felt it would be better for him to formally contribute the code to the
project, but as Benson was concerned about getting the appropriate
paperwork in place in reasonable time he had read the guidance and
decided it could be included under the BSD licence.
I checked the details of this, and indeed Benson's interpretation is
correct (most authoritative response from Nik Kew below).
Note, Henry Story has been working with Benson on getting this code into
Clerezza.
I'm still of the opinion that it would be better to have the code
formally donated to the ASF to keep things simple and clear. However,
this is not necessary and a simple inclusion with credits would suffice.
In the interests of speed there is no need to get full approval from the
original copyright holder since the code is under BSD license.
Ross
On 18/08/2010 18:42, Nick Kew wrote:
On 18 Aug 2010, at 13:59, Benson Margulies wrote:
My understanding is that for a 'category A' license like BSD you just
add it to NOTICES.
Indeed. We have precedent on bundling of third-party code,
such as expat and pcre.
