Re: [Dspace-tech] License Compatibility

2010-11-03 Thread Mark H. Wood
As Tim's response may have suggested to you: you really need to ask your lawyer if you want a defensible answer. That said, BSD and GPL being what they are, I think it more likely that there would be an objection on *your* side, since GPL is much more stringent. That is, you'd have to make certa

Re: [Dspace-tech] License Compatibility

2010-11-02 Thread Tim Donohue
First off -- I'm not a lawyer. I need say that before answering this sort of question. :) So, what follows is my general understanding of the code license. When you develop a 3rd party extension, you can choose to release your own code under your own license (assuming your extension is not re-di

[Dspace-tech] License Compatibility

2010-11-02 Thread Hayden Young
We are carrying out some custom development on our DSpace installation and I would like to confirm some open source licensing issues: It is my understanding that if I wish to license changes to any core development I need to choose either the BSD license or a BSD-compatible license. However, if