On Tue, 7 May 2002, Daniel Rall wrote: > Heya Dirk. The MM.MySQL driver was recently LGPL'd by the author, > Mark Matthews. If the documentation which comes with it still states > that it is GPL'd, that documentation is out of date -- contacting Mark > ought to resolve the issue (and yes I tried to make the case for a > BSD/Apache license ;).
That reopens the old 'what licences are allowed' - I keep asking this every few months ( last time when we discussed the Sun licenced code that we include ). At this moment it seems there are some agreements with various parties (Sun in particular ) that nobody knows about, subscribing to 'licensing' list is closed for non-ASF members, and the PMC is supposed to enforce something without knowing what ( but at least I hope some PMC members have access to this information - I don't ). My opinion is that until ASF publishes an official list of licences/software products it has agreements that allow distribution and eventually redistribution - we can't include anything but ASF software. I like LGPL - but is it compatible with APL ? That's what ASF must decide, since ASF will go to court if FSF disagrees. This is unfortunately difficult given that most jakarta projects depend already on non-ASF software. While Sun agreed to allow open source implementation of some specs sometimes in the future - JMX is still not legal, and we'll soon have a release of tomcat with important features based on jmx. ( and probably with mx4j included - even if it is still unclear if this is legal or not ). Costin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
