Steffen, Stian forwarded me your email with your licensing questions.
You questions (2),(3) and (4) gives us the opportunity to review the existing text of the CLA and try to simplify the wording in order to make it clearer and easier for you and other future contributors to understand. When I forward to you our revised CLA I will also answer your questions 2-4. I expect to have a new version of the CLA by the end of this week, beginning of next week. I will send you a copy and if you still have any questions or issues to discuss please contact me. Regarding your comment that you found it difficult to find the LGPL licence: http://code.google.com/p/taverna/source/browse/taverna/products/net.sf.taverna.t2.taverna-workbench/trunk/workbench-distro/src/main/resources/LICENCE.txt is the license file that is included in the top level of the binary distributions - it's the LGPL 2.1 and should be identical to http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.1.txt - if there's a binary distribution that does not contain the LICENSE file - please let us know which one so we can update it. http://code.google.com/p/taverna/ says: Code license: GNU Lesser General Public License with a link to http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html (which to be fair is LGPL 3 and not 2.1 - but the license does implicitly permit an upgrade to LGPL 3, GPL 2 and GPL 3) http://www.mygrid.org.uk/tools/taverna/taverna-licence/ also links to http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.1.html Most or all source code files should also have this header: /******************************************************************************* * Copyright (C) 2007 The University of Manchester * * Modifications to the initial code base are copyright of their * respective authors, or their employers as appropriate. * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of * the License, or (at your option) any later version. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU * Lesser General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public * License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 ******************************************************************************/ For instance in: http://code.google.com/p/taverna/source/browse/taverna/engine/net.sf.taverna.t2.core/trunk/workflowmodel-api/src/main/java/net/sf/taverna/t2/workflowmodel/Dataflow.java Regards, Constantinos Astreos ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Steffen Neumann <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 10:44 Subject: [Taverna-hackers] Licensing questions To: List for general discussion and hacking of the Taverna project <[email protected]> Hi, a few questions on licensing here, since we're checking whether we can sign the corporate CLA. A comment upfront: I could not easily find the LGPL licensing for taverna, Michael had to point me to the release notes. A few more LICENSE files throughout the CVS/SVN repositories might be a good idea. 1) Taverna is LGPL, and our web player might get the same license. 2) What does 2. Grant of Copyright License .... grant to the University ... sublicense Your contribution" mean ? Is the distribution/download process sublicensing ? 3) This sublicensing can not change the LGPL license, is that correct ? 4) Why is "selling" part of the "3. Patent License" ? I am incluined to remove that prior to signing. These are just my points, there might be more when the text comes back from our administration. Yours, Steffen -- IPB Halle AG Massenspektrometrie & Bioinformatik Dr. Steffen Neumann http://www.IPB-Halle.DE Weinberg 3 http://msbi.bic-gh.de 06120 Halle Tel. +49 (0) 345 5582 - 1470 +49 (0) 345 5582 - 0 sneumann(at)IPB-Halle.DE Fax. +49 (0) 345 5582 - 1409 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ taverna-hackers mailing list [email protected] Web site: http://www.taverna.org.uk Mailing lists: http://www.taverna.org.uk/taverna-mailing-lists/ Developers Guide: http://www.mygrid.org.uk/tools/developer-information -- Stian Soiland-Reyes, myGrid team School of Computer Science The University of Manchester -- Stian Soiland-Reyes, myGrid team School of Computer Science The University of Manchester ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ taverna-hackers mailing list [email protected] Web site: http://www.taverna.org.uk Mailing lists: http://www.taverna.org.uk/taverna-mailing-lists/ Developers Guide: http://www.mygrid.org.uk/tools/developer-information
