Re: Birt licensing problems need help, I cannot solve, scott can you help.

[Scott Gray]

On 2/12/2009, at 6:31 AM, Adam Heath wrote:

Hans Bakker wrote:

So you are not willing to discuss this with the eclipse guys and help me

solve a problem you came up with and seems to be blocking.

This is how i solved the docbook license problem and got an approval

often they either change the license or give us a specific approval.

from the owners because all this licence stuff is a pain in the butt not only for us but also for them. Apache OFBiz gets now so much weight that

Specific approval just for ofbiz is not good enough.  Other people can
redistribute ofbiz, and they still need to be compliant.

Regards
Scott

This is what legal needs to answer, I am aware of other libraries in use in ASF projects where exceptions have been granted by the licensor so it is possible, I'm just not sure what form it needs to take so that it applies to downstream users as well. I think it actually needs to be a relicensed with a modified version of the EPL that explicitly removes the weak copy-left requirement. Personally I struggle to believe that birt would do this, especially for a released version.

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