[License-discuss] Companies that encourage license violations

2015-08-25 Thread Chris Ochs
I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this, if not I'd greatly appreciate a pointer to the right one. So I ran into a situation where a company isn't training their employees very well and is causing all sorts of confusion and in some cases outright license/copyright violations through what

Re: [License-discuss] Category B licenses at Apache

2015-08-25 Thread Lawrence Rosen
I wrote earlier and want to postscript it: A bigger change would require that someone intelligent on the PMC evaluate it as a contribution and make a comment about it in the NOTICE file. For example, a short and simple NOTICE file could say: Apache SQRT is an improved square root

Re: [License-discuss] Category B licenses at Apache

2015-08-25 Thread Lawrence Rosen
Responding to Nigel Tzeng's concerns (below) about source and object code: There is perhaps a smaller risk that someone will make a derivative work of Apache software entirely by accident from the binary alone without looking for the source code (and finding it) posted on the web. But just in

Re: [License-discuss] Category B licenses at Apache

2015-08-25 Thread Lawrence Rosen
Richard Eckart de Castilho wrote: The problem with reciprocal licenses in the lines of EPL and MPL is not so much in being used as: a) a *library* or as b) a clearly *separate piece of code* (that resides in a repository outside the ASF) but rather in *accepting patches* for at least two

Re: [License-discuss] Option to fall back from GPL to ASL

2015-08-25 Thread John Cowan
Richard Eckart de Castilho scripsit: This software is provided under the terms of the GPL *as long as mandated by the reciprocal terms of libraries used by this software*. Any code removed from this software falls back to ASL unless it continues to depend on GPL code. Likewise, all code

Re: [License-discuss] Category B licenses at Apache

2015-08-25 Thread Tzeng, Nigel H.
Larry, Scenario A: I'm looking for an example in my codebase on how to do Foo (of course) and I find a code snippet to do roughly what I want. I cut and paste it into where I need it, modify it slightly and move on. Developers do this all the time. If the source code for the Category B

[License-discuss] Option to fall back from GPL to ASL

2015-08-25 Thread Richard Eckart de Castilho
Hi all, I am relatively new here, yet this seems to be the most appropriate venue to ask a question that has been nagging me for a while now. I'm involved in a project that consists of multiple modules, most are ASL licensed, but some are GPL licensed. The reason why we use GPL for a few