IANAL. I'm a little mystified by the motivations of your company's lawyers. To me it seems like either
1. They want the ability to sue everyone else using this software while using it themselves since someone else independently implemented a patent they hold. (in which case the patent is perhaps not likely to stand up to prior art or obviousness investigations) 2. They want their company to be subject to suits for patent infringement for using the software. 3. They want you to contribute patented technology to the code to make it unusable by anyone else. If I had contributed to these plugins I would certainly not agree to changing the license from AL2 to MIT. But, IANAL. david jencks On Sep 4, 2014, at 2:52 PM, Dan Tran <dant...@gmail.com> wrote: > Here is quote from our internal doc regarding apachev2 > > These licenses contain automatic patent licenses. Some specific > technologies have been reviewed and found to be free of undesired > impact on XXXXX's patent portfolio. XXXXX development organizations > are approved only to use the specific technologies listed here > covered by these licenses. > > Here is the one for MIT/BSD > > while generally benign, may include copyright, license > publication, or advertising requirements. These must be reflected in the > Compliance Plan. > > > here is another interesting reference > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/40100/apache-license-vs-bsd-vs-mit > > > Very interesting > > > The question is there a rule where I as main developer/maintainer not allow > to change the license?? > > -D > > > On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Robert Scholte <codeh...@sourcegrounds.com> > wrote: > Hi, > > read http://www.codehaus.org/customs/licenses.html > > The advice is to use ASL2, although MIT is permitted. > I want to hear the facts why "they say" MIT would be better. > > Robert > > Op Wed, 03 Sep 2014 21:40:48 +0200 schreef Dan Tran <dant...@gmail.com>: > > OK, They are not my plugins, they belong to MOJO@codehaus > > those like vfs-maven-plugin, wagon-maven-plugin > > From what I heard MIT is most friendly license, better than ASL, do what > you want, no need to keep copyright? > > > -D > > > On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Karl Heinz Marbaise <khmarba...@gmx.de> > wrote: > > Hi Dan, > > > On 9/3/14 8:08 PM, Dan Tran wrote: > > > What is the process/procedure for doing so? > > Motivation: my company prefer MIT over ASL2, ie less hassle for me to > deal with. > > > > Just one Question: > > What do you mean by 'my plugins' ? Of which plugins are we talking about > are those plugins are belonging you in person ... > > Furthermore ASL2 is the best a company can use... > > Kind regards > Karl-Heinz Marbaise > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: > > http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: > > http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email > > >
