Compatible licenses for Traffic Server

[Leif Hedstrom-2]

Forwarding this question from Andrew, for some reason I don't think it  
arrived at general@...

-- Leif


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Andrew Hsu <andrewhs@...>
> Date: September 28, 2009 10:03:37 PM MDT
> To: <general@...>
> Cc: <trafficserver-private@...>, <trafficserver-dev@...
> >, Leif Hedstrom <leifh@...>
> Subject: Compatible licenses for Traffic Server
> Reply-To: andrew.hsu@...
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm putting together the LICENSE and NOTICE files for the initial  
> commit of Traffic Server.  At the same time we are working to gut  
> the code of commercial licenses that cannot be released open  
> source.  Curious to know if there are some open source licenses that  
> are incompatible with Apache License 2.0 that we should also take  
> into account?
>
> Here is our list of open source licenses for source code that is  
> embedded in our software:
> GNU Lesser General Public License 2.0
> GNU Lesser General Public License 2.1
> GNU General Public License 2.0
> Mozilla Public License 1.1
> NetBSD (BSD with advertising clause)
> MIT
> OpenSSL
> We may be able to update the code that has the NetBSD (BSD with  
> advertising clause) to a newer NetBSD license (without advertising  
> clause).
>
> I tried searching for some type of license matrix on the Apache  
> Incubator pages for guidance and I came across a page about GPL  
> compatibility.  Seems to me GPL 2.0 is incompatible--is it also the  
> same for LGPL 2.0 and LGPL 2.1?
>
> Cheers,
> Andrew
>
> --
> andrew hsu  |  technical lead  |  Yahoo! Inc.  |  andrew.hsu@...
>   |  yahoo id. andrewhsyou  |  w. 408.349.4377  |  c. 408.386.5168

[Niclas Hedhman]

A chunk of the questions are answered on
http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html

-- Niclas

On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Leif Hedstrom <leif@...> wrote:

> Forwarding this question from Andrew, for some reason I don't think it
> arrived at general@...
>
> -- Leif
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> From: Andrew Hsu <andrewhs@...>
>> Date: September 28, 2009 10:03:37 PM MDT
>> To: <general@...>
>> Cc: <trafficserver-private@...>,
>> <trafficserver-dev@...>, Leif Hedstrom
>> <leifh@...>
>> Subject: Compatible licenses for Traffic Server
>> Reply-To: andrew.hsu@...
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm putting together the LICENSE and NOTICE files for the initial commit
>> of Traffic Server.  At the same time we are working to gut the code of
>> commercial licenses that cannot be released open source.  Curious to know if
>> there are some open source licenses that are incompatible with Apache
>> License 2.0 that we should also take into account?
>>
>> Here is our list of open source licenses for source code that is embedded
>> in our software:
>> GNU Lesser General Public License 2.0
>> GNU Lesser General Public License 2.1
>> GNU General Public License 2.0
>> Mozilla Public License 1.1
>> NetBSD (BSD with advertising clause)
>> MIT
>> OpenSSL
>> We may be able to update the code that has the NetBSD (BSD with
>> advertising clause) to a newer NetBSD license (without advertising clause).
>>
>> I tried searching for some type of license matrix on the Apache Incubator
>> pages for guidance and I came across a page about GPL compatibility.  Seems
>> to me GPL 2.0 is incompatible--is it also the same for LGPL 2.0 and LGPL
>> 2.1?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Andrew
>>
>> --
>> andrew hsu  |  technical lead  |  Yahoo! Inc.  |  andrew.hsu@...
>>  |  yahoo id. andrewhsyou  |  w. 408.349.4377  |  c. 408.386.5168
>
>

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