On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:25:57AM +1000, Roald de Wit wrote: > Christopher Schmidt wrote: > >Kris, > > > >Thanks for the work on this. Two things: > > * Since the XMLHttpRequest code is, as I understand it, primarily taken > > from the XMLHttpRequest project (that you linked); are the changes > > that you put in that file already included in1.0.3 of XMLHttpRequest? > > (Unfortunately, the license for that library changed, so now I have > > to go read the LGPL and figure out if we can just pull the latest > > version from them.) > > > The license for XMLHttpRequest.js is LGPLv3 and therefore most probably > too restrictive (IANAL). The schema on the following page [1] says: you > can use BSD-new with LGPLv3 but then your project falls under the latter > license. > > Maybe it's an idea to contact the author of XMLHttpRequest.js and ask > him to release under a more permissive license (as well)? He might not > realise the problems his new license is causing us (and probably more > projects).
I doubt it. He originally made it Apache, then switched to LGPL, as I understand it -- which speaks of a decision being made to make that change, which means that he'd be unlikely to want to switch back. -- Chris > Regards, > > Roald > > [1] http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/floss-license-slide.html > > -- > Roald de Wit > Software Engineer > roald.de...@lisasoft.com > > Commercial Support for Open Source GIS Software > http://lisasoft.com/LISAsoft/SupportedProducts/ > > > > The contents of this email are confidential and may be subject to legal or > professional privilege and copyright. No representation is made that this > email is free of viruses or other defects. If you have received this > communication in error, you may not copy or distribute any part of it or > otherwise disclose its contents to anyone. Please advise the sender of your > incorrect receipt of this correspondence. -- Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list Dev@openlayers.org http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
