Re: Licensing exception to increase product compatibility

2008-01-23 Thread Ivan Ristic
Walter Landry wrote: Ivan Ristic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think that it's possible to design a licensing exception that would essentially say the following: - For non-ModSecurity-related modules, allow any open source licence. We would either call for any OSI-certified licence, or explic

Re: Licensing exception to increase product compatibility

2008-01-23 Thread Ivan Ristic
Florian Weimer wrote: * Ivan Ristic: The problem is that an Apache installation typically consists of many modules, each with a potentially different licence. I am only aware of the incompatibility between the GPLv2 and the ASL, although other issues may exist. Although GPLv2 is our licence of

Re: Licensing exception to increase product compatibility

2008-01-22 Thread Florian Weimer
* Ivan Ristic: > The problem is that an Apache installation typically consists of many > modules, each with a potentially different licence. I am only aware of > the incompatibility between the GPLv2 and the ASL, although other > issues may exist. Although GPLv2 is our licence of choice, we do not

Re: Licensing exception to increase product compatibility

2008-01-22 Thread Walter Landry
Ivan Ristic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think that it's possible to design a licensing exception that would > essentially say the following: > > - For non-ModSecurity-related modules, allow any open source licence. >We would either call for any OSI-certified licence, or explicitly >list

Re: Licensing exception to increase product compatibility

2008-01-21 Thread Joe Smith
"Ivan Ristic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I am the original author of ModSecurity (http://www.modsecurity.org), an open source web application firewall, which is licensed under GPLv2. ModSecurity was acquired by Breach Security in late 2006. I joined the com

Re: Licensing exception to increase product compatibility

2008-01-21 Thread Arnoud Engelfriet
Ivan Ristic wrote: > ModSecurity used to be distributed in Debian but this is no longer > the case, due to the incompatibility between the GPLv2 and the Apache > Software License. I would like to explore a licensing exception as > the fastest way of resolving this problem. I'm not affiliated with

Licensing exception to increase product compatibility

2008-01-21 Thread Ivan Ristic
Hi, I am the original author of ModSecurity (http://www.modsecurity.org), an open source web application firewall, which is licensed under GPLv2. ModSecurity was acquired by Breach Security in late 2006. I joined the company at the same time, continuing to manage the project, which remained open