On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 01:33:37AM -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > > The ASF develops and distributes code licensed under the ASL. An ASF > > project can depend on software written on other licenses, but distributing > > or developing software under different licenses is somewhere between > > atypical and prohibited. I think any exception would have to be granted by > > the board. > > I've never seen anything when reading through the ASF docs on > licensing that would indicate including external dependencies is > 'somewhere between atypical and prohibited'.
As I understand it, the NOTICE file was designed to explicitly handle this: http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#notice http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-legal-discuss/200908.mbox/<[email protected]> Which would suggest it is typical enough to make policy. Best, -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater
