Hi On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Erik Larsson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > As cherry-picking from Fuse4X and OSXFUSE is becoming more relevant in the > future, I realized that the issue of licensing isn't very clear. > > Specifically, I'm unsure about the licensing status of Fuse4x. The homepage > doesn't say anything about this. > Under what license does Anatol release his contributions to the code? We > cannot cherry-pick modifications with unknown legal status from other > projects. (I tried to look around in the github repositories, but couldn't > find any legal notice.) > License is the same as for macfuse - libfuse is LGPL, the rest is BSD. https://github.com/fuse4x/fuse4x/blob/master/Install_resources/License.rtf You do not need any approval to cherry-pick code from Fuse4X, the only requirement is to add fuse4x.org copyright. I will assume that OSXFUSE contributors should follow in Tuxera's and > Google's footsteps and license modifications under the BSD license? Do you > have any objections Benjamin? > > Including (and even using compiled versions of) code with unclear legal > status could get someone into trouble, so this needs to be very explicitly > stated. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacFUSE" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macfuse?hl=en.
