Anil Ramnanan wrote: > David Crossley wrote: > > >It depends. The main thing is that we cannot add anything > >that has retrictions beyond the terms of the Apache License. > > > >Please direct us to an example of something that you want > >to include and to their license conditions. > > > Here is an example of icons that are made available under the Creative > Commons license. > http://www.graphicpush.com/index.php?s=icons > > Here is the license that it is released under: > http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ > > Basically the license states > You are free: > * to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work > * to make derivative works > * to make commercial use of the work > > Under the following conditions: > by Attribution. You must attribute the work in the manner specified > by the author or licensor.
Most such licenses would ask for simple attribution and we add it to our trunk/NOTICE.txt file. If these people ask for something beyond that then we need to assess that requirement. > Share Alike. If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, > you may distribute the resulting work only under a license identical to > this one. See Ferdinand's comments. > * For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the > license terms of this work. That is okay. We would add their license beside those files and retain their copyright headers. > * Any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from > the copyright holder. We wouldn't. -David
