Hello, I have been evaluating the use of Fedora-commons for our project (which may eventually include a commercial angle). I am still very new to the Fedora project, so bear with me :)
When going through the license information on http://www.fedora-commons.org/software/licenses I noticed that the list does not seem fully up to date. For example the websites of apache-batik, Jakarta-oro and apache-commons list the license as being Apache 2.0 vs Apache 1.1. Similar for Jersey. Also, as an aside, some of these 3rd party libraries seem to be no longer maintained (eg., Jakarta-oro) or superseded (McKoi vs Derby? JMX?). Finally, the "more info" links return a 403 error. However, I did not check which versions are actually included in the latest Fedora release but maybe it is worth checking if this page is still up to date. I did not manually check everything, but the list of licences I get are: Apache License 2.0, Apache License 1.1, LGPL 2.1, LGPL 2.0, MIT, public domain, dual CDDL 1.0 and GPL 2 with CPE, BSD, CDDL 1.0, CPL 1.0, GPL 2.0, OSL 3.0/Apache 2.0, MPL 1.0, Sun binary code I am still unsure what all this means from a compatibility/redistribution standpoint, but then again I am not a lawyer. It seems there are some commercial routes being explored with Fedora, I would be interested in any success stories, tips, or experience. If any (major) changes are pending with regard to license policy that would also be worth knowing (e.g., following the Duraspace initiative). Many thanks, Best regards, Dirk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Fedora-commons-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fedora-commons-developers
