Thanks Sylvain, The JSON license is one I've come across before in the ASF. It's been approved by legal, see http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html
Ross Sent from my mobile device (so please excuse typos) On 2 Jul 2011, at 19:08, Sylvain Wallez <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 29/06/11 19:33, Franklin, Matthew B. a écrit : >> Vote will be open for 72 hours. >> >> [ ] +1 approve >> [ ] +0 no opinion >> [ ] -1 disapprove (and reason why) > > There's an external component whose licence has a weird phrasing: in > rave-portal/src/main/appended-resources/META-INF/LICENSE we can see that > org.json's licence is BSD-ish, but states "The Software shall be used for > Good, not Evil." > > Sounds nice and innocent, but from a lawyer's point of view (which I am not), > what does this mean? What is "evil" software? Isn't this implicitely defining > fields of use, which would make it incompatible with the Apache Licence? > > Not sure this a serious issue though, but worth mentioning. > > Other than that, +1 for the release! I'm rather impressed with how fast you > guys came up with a first release ! > > Sylvain > -- > Sylvain Wallez - http://bluxte.net >
