No there are plenty of works derived from Apache projects. Apache code may be freely modified or redistributed, but as per the Apache license:
The end-user documentation included with [redistributions of Apache code], if any, must include the following acknowlegement: "This product includes software developed by the Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/)." Alternately, this acknowlegement may appear in the software itself, if and wherever such third-party acknowlegements normally appear. The fact that Apache code has an owner (the ASF membership) and a copyright does not exclude it from having an open-source license. In fact, if the code did not have an owner, the license would be exceedingly difficult to defend. - Morgan --- Timothy Halloran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does this mean the ASF has taken away the ability > for others to do > derived works (including derived works that make the > code commercial or > GPL -- with a simple name change)? That would mean > the license is no > longer open source (by OSD anyway)? > > This is a strange discussion thread. > > On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 12:36, Pier Fumagalli wrote: > > On 10/2/03 4:05 "Lawrence E. Rosen" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >> It should be noted that Apache Software > Foundation members > > >> are the legal > > >> *owners* of the software that is available > under the Apache > > >> Software License. Indeed, that is one of the > key benefits to > > >> becoming an ASF member, as opposed to just a > committer on one > > >> or more projects. It seems perfectly > reasonable that > > >> decisions on the license under which that > software is > > >> licensed should be made by the people that own > it. > > > > > > I'm curious. What is the legal basis for this > claim of ownership? > > > > The fact that each contributor, prior access to > our CVS repository, signs a > > paper saying that for whatever goes in CVS, he > assigns copyright and > > ownership of the code to the ASF... No more no > less than what any random > > employee of a software company does with his > employer... > > > > Pier > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ===== Morgan Delagrange http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs http://jakarta.apache.org/commons http://axion.tigris.org http://jakarta.apache.org/watchdog __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
