licensing questions

Hi,

I send this mail to both, the old and the new mailing list.

Am Mittwoch, 3. Januar 2007 18:39 schrieben Sie:
> We should probably also decide on what license to use
for new files.
> I think our choices are MIT, modified BSD, or Apache
1.1 or 2.0.
>
> Here are the basic differences between the licenses:
>
>     * MIT is the simplest
>     * modified BSD explicitly states that the copyright
owners' names
> cannot be used to endorse derived products
>     * In addition, Apache 1.1 requires attribution in
documentation or
> code. * Apache 2.0 requires that you retain all
copyright notices in the
> source, states that any contribution will come under
the copyright
> ownership of Licensor, and licenses any patents
involved royalty free.
>
> It would probably be hard for my company to agree to a
Apache 2.0
> license for new files we've made if we were not the
licensor.

As far as I know, most of the existing code is Apache 1.1
licensed. My company 
would be fine with using Apache 1.1 for the new file we
made. 
Are there any reasons against Apache 1.1 license?

Markus

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On 1/4/07, Markus Litz <markus.litzdlr.de> wrote:
>
> As far as I know, most of the existing code is Apache
1.1 licensed. My company
> would be fine with using Apache 1.1 for the new file we
made.
> Are there any reasons against Apache 1.1 license?
>

For any files that may be folded back into Apache, we should
probably
use an Apache 2.0 license and hand over copyright to the ASF
(which is
implicitly done when you send it as a contribution to
Apache).  For
example, branches/acp-branch/dav/main/acl.c

As for methods.[ch], I don't think it's good to move around
third-party code into different files.  It makes it very
difficult to
merge in upstream changes later.  Here at LimeWire, we undid
the
moving of the code on our branch of catacomb in order to
facilitate a
merge with the mod_dav from Apache 2.2.

Cheers,
Tim
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