The ASF Licence, being based on the BSD license, is one of the most liberal license available in the open source arena.
It's one of the declared aims of the ASF to allow any usage that does not violate copyrights even in commercial projects.
So your company could even take OJB, add some bells and whistles and give it another label and sell it under a different brand as commercial product. As long as you maintain the authorship notice in all files.
(That's what IBM is doing with Apache HTTP and Tomcat)
I firmly believe that future versions of the ASF License will continue this liberal style. Otherwise it won't make sense for big companies to contribute their manpower into the Apache projects.
I've no idea what your lawyers are talking about. They should give us some more details...
cheers, Thomas
Robert J Celestino wrote:
Hello All,
I was wondering what everyone's thoughts were on the licensing of OJB. I would very much like to incorporate OJB into our next project, a comercial project. However the legal department is balking at the proposed changes to the Apache License. Their position is that the current Apache license is acceptable, but *proposed* changes are not.
I am not a lawyer (much to my Dad's dismay) but I am wondering what everyone out there is doing.
Thanks Bob c
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