Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-felix-dev-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 98920 invoked from network); 18 Jul 2006 23:59:49 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (209.237.227.199) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 18 Jul 2006 23:59:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 45185 invoked by uid 500); 18 Jul 2006 23:59:48 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-felix-dev-archive@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 45136 invoked by uid 500); 18 Jul 2006 23:59:48 -0000 Mailing-List: contact felix-dev-help@incubator.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: felix-dev@incubator.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list felix-dev@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 45125 invoked by uid 99); 18 Jul 2006 23:59:48 -0000 Received: from asf.osuosl.org (HELO asf.osuosl.org) (140.211.166.49) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 16:59:48 -0700 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.5 required=10.0 tests=DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (asf.osuosl.org: domain of hedhman@gmail.com designates 64.233.184.237 as permitted sender) Received: from [64.233.184.237] (HELO wr-out-0506.google.com) (64.233.184.237) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 16:59:47 -0700 Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 55so19877wri for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 16:59:27 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:organization:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id:sender; b=ExnQQTj588QMHjBIni8UVDYz7rjJhLNjDMou/g0fctoVb4iNzGbrfSjCU+JdyvKdj2tubTP6S9+GJ/6FXvqJ43YDrLPLLIzzeZWgRtsH084G2J+wGWerDTVF+frL3uwFS1wY8APxpeiiGfj8EkQMEZOpvFi6YUMD30KC5Xt0ZVI= Received: by 10.54.82.4 with SMTP id f4mr95398wrb; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 16:59:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.0.152? ( [74.130.197.137]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 13sm169886wrl.2006.07.18.16.59.25; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 16:59:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Niclas Hedhman Organization: Private To: felix-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Licensing and graduation tasks Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 07:59:16 +0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <44BB6EC4.9030006@odoko.co.uk> <20060717113424.GA428@ares-frenot-3.insa-lyon.fr> <44BBA921.3030306@ungoverned.org> In-Reply-To: <44BBA921.3030306@ungoverned.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200607190759.17207.niclas@hedhman.org> Sender: Niclas Hedhman X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org X-Spam-Rating: minotaur.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N On Monday 17 July 2006 23:13, Richard S. Hall wrote: > I was just reading the MX4J web site and they make the following > statement on their web page: > > "MX4J is released under an Apache-style license. In practice this > means that you can do almost anything you want with the code, > including its use in commercial software." > http://mx4j.sourceforge.net/docs/ch01s06.html > > So, perhaps this won't be a big issue, but how do we get this verified? The license attached is a BSD-style license (probably a slight derivation regarding giving credit). BSD-style licenses are generally accepted to be dependent on in ASF, and I don't see (IANAL) any problems with this one. We need to place the license into the a "license" folder or similar of the distributed material, and add a reference/content in the NOTICE file. Cheers Niclas