Can you clarify what is meant by "add this license to /legal"? And what the update to NOTICES.TXT should look like? Something like this?
Apache Lucene Connector Framework Copyright 2010 The Apache Software Foundation This product includes software developed by The Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/). Portions of the software are licensed as follows: Copyright (c) 2002 JSON.org Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. Karl -----Original Message----- From: ext Jack Krupansky [mailto:jack.krupan...@lucidimagination.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 1:45 PM To: Wright Karl (Nokia-MS/Cambridge) Cc: Grant Ingersoll Subject: Fw: JSON license Some feedback on the JSON license from within Lucid. Sounds like it is okay, as long as Apache is okay with it. -- Jack Krupansky -------------------------------------------------- From: "Eran Yaniv" <eran.ya...@lucidimagination.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 1:41 PM To: "'Brian Pinkerton'" <brian.pinker...@lucidimagination.com>; "'Jack Krupansky'" <jack.krupan...@lucidimagination.com> Cc: "'Cassandra Targett'" <cassandra.targ...@lucidimagination.com>; "'Grant Ingersoll'" <gr...@lucidimagination.com> Subject: RE: JSON license > It's a modified version of the MIT license. should be OK, as long as we > document it (update NOTICES.txt and add this license to /legal) > > Also, since Evil (capitalized!) is not defined in the license, it has no > real legal meaning. But we may have to turn down the current Iranian > government as a customer > > Thanks > Eran > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Brian Pinkerton [mailto:brian.pinker...@lucidimagination.com] >> Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 7:20 AM >> To: Jack Krupansky >> Cc: Cassandra Targett; Eran Yaniv; Grant Ingersoll >> Subject: Re: JSON license >> >> Looks fine to me. On the face of it, the "Good, not Evil" part seems >> dangerous, but I'm sure legally it has no meaning. >> >> bri >> >> On Jul 13, 2010, at 7:09 AM, Jack Krupansky wrote: >> >> > More to the point, is the standard JSON license acceptable to Lucid? > Or, do >> we use a different JSON library that does not have the copyleft issue > that this >> JSON license has? >> > >> > -- Jack Krupansky >> > >> > -------------------------------------------------- >> > From: <karl.wri...@nokia.com> >> > Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2010 7:03 PM >> > To: <connectors-dev@incubator.apache.org> >> > Subject: JSON license >> > >> >> Is the JSON license acceptable by Apache? It seems to be a variant > of the >> Berkeley license: >> >> >> >> >> >> Copyright (c) 2002 JSON.org >> >> Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining > a >> copy of this software and associated documentation files (the > "Software"), >> to deal in the Software without restriction, including without > limitation the >> rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, > and/or sell >> copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is >> furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: >> >> The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be > included in >> all copies or substantial portions of the Software. >> >> The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil. >> >> THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, >> EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF >> MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND >> NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT >> HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, >> WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING >> FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR >> OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. >> >> >> >> >> >> Karl >> >> >
