Hi,
Anatol Pomozov wrote 2011-08-23 06.47:
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Erik Larsson <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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 <http://fuse4x.org> copyright.
Okay, thanks for clarifying this. Then it's no different from Tuxera's
and OSXFUSE's terms except that libfuse modifications are LGPL, not BSD,
which seems to be a non-issue as the whole will be covered by LGPL anyway.
Amit/Google had some idea that the 'patches to libfuse are BSD
licensed'... I suppose the purpose of that approach is that if someone
ports these patches to a differently licensed (non-LGPL) libfuse (like
NetBSD's librefuse) it shouldn't present any problems. At this point
it's a non-issue of course.
Also, IANAL, but I doubt that a website address such as "fuse4x.org" or
non-organizational entity such as the "OSXFUSE project" can legally
claim a copyright. It's a bit vague.
I would suggest that both projects clarify the copyright claims with the
names of all persons or companies that makes contributions, just to make
sure that there's no ambiguity.
Regards,
- Erik
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