Hi all Developers, I wanted to send a brief note to everyone in regards to this recent discussion about some GPL licensed code.
After talking with others in DuraSpace, I realized that I was mistaken to have previously stated that this code was "acceptable". DuraSpace feels that GPL (GNU General Public License) conflicts with our DSpace BSD License (along with the Apache 2 License used by Fedora and DuraCloud). The main area of conflict is around commercial redistribution of open source software. DuraSpace feels that GPL is too limiting in this area and the terms of GPL can actually be detrimental to our existing "Service Providers" model. As we all know, our Service Providers are highly active members of the community (and many actually strive to include much of their code/improvements back to DSpace). I've added more details about this decision to the Licensing section of our "Code Contributions" page: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Code+Contribution+Guidelines If anyone has questions/comments/concerns, please don't hesitate to get in touch. I'd be glad to bring feedback back to DuraSpace as a whole. == Regarding DS-1178 & its Pull Request == Regarding this specific bit of code, we've already reached out to the original code creators to see if they would be willing to re-license this single file to something other than GPL. We're waiting to hear back. If they do not wish to change the code license, then we will have to remove the GPL licensed code (which was only just committed in the last week or so). If that comes about, we'll re-open DS-1178 for future development, and hopefully someone can create a brand new implementation which doesn't depend on the initial GPL licensed code. In any case, the final result here will be that we need to resolve DS-1178 without the inclusion of any GPL licensed code. Let me know if there are any questions! - Tim -- Tim Donohue Technical Lead for DSpace Project DuraSpace.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Dspace-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-devel
