On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 09:54:25AM -0700, Jamin W.Collins wrote: > > On Apr 1, 2005, at 1:33 AM, Matthias Wimmer wrote: > > >Jamin W.Collins schrieb am 2005-03-31 19:14:34: > >>Looking at Jabber.Org's server listing[2], it indicates that the > >>Jabberd source is licensed under the GPL. However review of the 1.4.3 > >>(last stable release) files shows that the primary license is the JOSL > >>with an option to relicense under the GPL only if the existing JOSL > >>notice is removed and replaced with a GPL notice. > > > >Where do you read this? I know that the licencing of jabberd14 is > >confusing so I might be confused as well. But as far as I can see in > >licence-header.txt, you only have to remove the JOSL licence if you > >want > >to distribute only under the GPL. If you do not remove it, you will > >distribute it under both licences. > > For Debian (or myself) distributing under both JOSL and GPL is more or > less the problem. The JOSL requires that I (the person creating the > released package) make sure that the source for each version be > available for 6-12 months depending on how rapidly releases were made. > Since I made the release I'm responsible for the making sure the source > for that individual release is available even though Debian is > providing the distribution. The Debian release structure for the > unstable and testing distributions can not assure this. Yet I'm still > responsible for it under the JOSL license. So, my only option would > be to make my releases under the GPL only, which would require > modifying each and every file.
The dual-licensing goes back a long time. What would be involved in licensing it solely under the GPL? Obviously the jabberd2 folks did that and it seems conceptually simpler than dual-licensing. Besides, there's a big push on to eliminate all the special licenses out there and just use a few (GPL + Apache + BSD or whatever). In fact I told some of the licensing gurus that I would help to eliminate the JOSL for that very reason (not that any of this is my code!). Just wondering... Peter _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev
