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Subject: Re: License Compatibility: Google vs. Apache
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:01:10 +0100
From: Marc Poussin <[email protected]>
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After a quick reading, it seems that this licence is a BSD licence, so
class A and compatible with the ASF policy
Best,
Marc
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Carl Trieloff <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
ASF Legal
Requesting a quick clarification from the legal list. It is thought
that the Google license being
a basic BSD is a class one license for Apache.
Can we confirm that we can use the license below (from Google) in an
Apache project.
thanks
Carl.
Joshua Kramer wrote:
Oops! Here's the license text:
Copyright 2008, Google Inc.
All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following
conditions are
met:
* Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
* Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above
copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following
disclaimer
in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the
distribution.
* Neither the name of Google Inc. nor the names of its
contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from
this software without specific prior written permission.
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS
"AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND
FITNESS FOR
A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT
OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT,
INCIDENTAL,
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LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF
USE,
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ON ANY
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(INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF
THE USE
OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
Code generated by the Protocol Buffer compiler is owned by the owner
of the input file used when generating it. This code is not
standalone and requires a support library to be linked with it. This
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