Thanks for this, Benson, and may take it you up on it. Mark suggested
running by legal@a.o first, otherwise I may very well want to take you
up on this offer.
Cheers
Dan
On 06/10/2010 19:59, Benson Margulies wrote:
> As an alternative, I wrote a device for this purpose as part of the
> Apache CXF Javascript SOAP client generator.
>
> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Dan Haywood <dkhaywood@gmail.com
> <mailto:dkhaywood@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Dear mentors,
>
> I've realized that one of my sister projects (restful objects) has
> a dependency on some LGPL software.
>
> Per the email chain below, I contacted the developer, Sergey
> Ilinsky, who has granted us permission with the words below:
>
> /Yes, I authorize "NO framework and your sister projects accepted
> [2] into the Apache incubator" to use my XMLHttpRequest.js library
> (available at the http://code.google.com/p/xmlhttprequest/ and
> currently licensed under LGPL) with the ASL license.
> /
> Does this make sense legally, and is it enough to put on file?
> Or would he need to formally license his software under ASL from
> his main website (and if he's not happy, then I'd need to yank it
> and use something else instead).
>
> Thanks,
> Dan
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: XmlHttpRequest licensing
> Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 17:46:26 +0100
> From: Dan Haywood <dkhaywood@gmail.com> <mailto:dkhaywood@gmail.com>
> Reply-To: dan@haywood-associates.co.uk
> <mailto:dan@haywood-associates.co.uk>
> Organization: Haywood Associates Ltd.
> To: Sergey Ilinsky <sergey@ilinsky.com> <mailto:sergey@ilinsky.com>
>
>
>
> Sergey,
> Thank you very much for your prompt reply, and for granting us
> this permission.
>
> I'm still learning the ropes at Apache, so I'll need to double
> check that the statement below suffices (and legally makes sense)
> but I would hope it would.
>
> ~~~
> Just had a quick glance at your Ample SDK; I'm always on the
> lookout for new frameworks that target the UI experience. It
> might work quite well as an alternative default front-end for my
> restful interface. Just added it to the Isis wiki. But whatever,
> good luck with build up a community for it.
>
> Thanks again,
> Dan
> ----------------
>
> On 06/10/2010 17:18, Sergey Ilinsky wrote:
>> Dan,
>>
>> Yes, I authorize "NO framework and your sister projects accepted
>> [2] into the Apache incubator" to use my XMLHttpRequest.js
>> library (available at the
>> http://code.google.com/p/xmlhttprequest/ and currently licensed
>> under LGPL) with the ASL license.
>>
>> BTW, you may be interested in looking into another project I
>> recently started - Ample SDK, Open-Source JavaScript GUI
>> Framework http://www.amplesdk.com There are already several
>> businesses using it for their benefit!
>>
>> Sergey/
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 6 October 2010 18:10, Dan Haywood <dkhaywood@gmail.com
>> <mailto:dkhaywood@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Sergey,
>> I came across your XMLHttpRequest a while back while writing
>> my book [1] on the Java Naked Objects framework (perhaps
>> you've heard of it, but then again, perhaps not) and
>> incorporated it into some companion "sister" project to
>> expose a RESTful interface to an NO domain model.
>>
>> Fast forward a year, and we've had the NO framework and my
>> sister projects accepted [2] into the Apache incubator.
>>
>> Anyway... one of the requirements for Apache is that all
>> dependencies must be ASL or equivalent. I see that you've
>> changed the license on XMLHttpRequest from GPL to LGPL, but
>> LGPL doesn't quite cut-it for Apache.
>>
>> So, my question is... would you be willing to further change
>> your license from LGPL to ASL? Otherwise I guess I'll need
>> to reimplement, but it's a shame to do so given such a good
>> piece of work is already out there.
>>
>> Many thanks,
>> Dan Haywood
>>
>> [1] http://pragprog.com/titles/dhnako
>> [2] http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/IsisProposal.
>>
>> --
>> Dan Haywood
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>> agile, ddd, oo, java, .net, sybase
>> MA, MBCS, CITP, CEng
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>>
>>
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