I think this is pretty comprehensive, yet compact explanation of the licensing policy at ASF: https://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html . As an engineer, I think it is one of the best documents ever I saw regarding licencing and I already forwarded it to a number of my friends who asked about some good approach to licencing. It's written in a very approachable way, with clear explanations, FAQs, uses cases etc.
I heartily recommend reading it all ! It's a fascinating read for a legal document (even for an engineer). J. On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 6:46 PM Shane Curcuru <a...@shanecurcuru.org> wrote: > St Leger, Jim wrote on 2020-2-12 12:26PM EST: > > I have heard that ASF only accepts projects that are licensed under the > Apache license. > > I've searched and do not find this specifically called out. Perhaps it's > assumed. > > Can you please confirm or correct if this is the case? > > It depends. We always develop and *ship* software under Apache-2.0: > > https://www.apache.org/licenses/#distributions > > But many of our projects contain dependencies or other materials that > may still be under other, similar permissive-style licenses. > > > And if yes, does that mean that a project that uses another permissive > license (e.g. BSD, MIT, etc.) would have to get all copyright owners to > agree to a move to an Apache license prior to approaching the ASF? > > The Incubator has an IP Clearance guide which is the place to start: > > https://incubator.apache.org/guides/ip_clearance.html > > Once you have a proposal for bringing a project to the Incubator, there > are people on the relevant incubator mailing lists who can help with the > process. In practice, accepting a codebase that's being willingly > donated and is under similar permissive licenses is just fine, and not > that hard to do. > > Good luck! > > -- > > - Shane > ComDev PMC & Member > The Apache Software Foundation > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > > -- +48 660 796 129
