On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 05:00:33PM -0800, Yingqi wrote: > > All, > > I have a question regarding to the the copyright issue of using OL in a demo > for a commercial software. The situation is that I create a client > application based on OpenLayers 2.5 (the OL source code was modified quite a > bit to support demo purpose) and I would like to use my OL-based client to > demo server-side functionality of a commercial software.
Cool. > So is it violating the OL's copyright policy or license to do so? Not at all. > If not, > what written permission do I need in addition to retain the copyright notice > and disclaimer in OL's release-license.txt? No additional permission is neccesary. The release-license.txt covers all rights (Essentially, "Everything") and restrictions (copy of the license in the documentation or copy of the copyright notice with the source code) that you have as a licensee of OpenLayers. > And also, is it ok to share the my OL-based sample to my audience? Absolutely. If you're giving them the code to OpenLayers (plus your modifications), you just need to include a copy of release-license.txt. Of course, we in the OpenLayers community are always interested in seeing your code, solutions, etc. as well, but the only legal requirement you have is to include a copy of the release-license.txt with whatever you give to other people, either source code or documentation: no additional claims, clauses, disclaimers, or permission is required. Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users
