Do we have any contact with the maintainers/creators of this stuff? If so, we may be able to ask for them to grant it to the ASF?
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Luc Maisonobe <luc.maison...@free.fr> wrote: > Le 08/08/2012 17:58, Christian Grobmeier a écrit : >> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Sébastien Brisard >> <sebastien.bris...@m4x.org> wrote: >> >>>>> Does that mean that porting it into Commons-Math is possible >>>>> (license-wise?). I would think it does… >>>> >>>> That seems explicitly restrictive to me. e.g. If I don't claim to be in >>>> the general scientific community, the software has not been made available >>>> to me. >>>> >>> I agree with you. However, "scientific community" does seem a bit >>> vague to me. Arguably, anyone using Commons-*MATH* could claim to >>> belong to the scientific community... > > I would strongly argue against too simplistic interpretation. > For this kind of question, you should ask to the dedicated list at > apache. Please see <http://www.apache.org/legal/> and > <http://www.apache.org/foundation/mailinglists.html#foundation-legal>. > > I guess they will say "no, you cannot use this stuff". > >> >> If somebody writes a webbased SPSS or a company like creates >> statistics on the SO usage with Math? Surely this is commercial use >> and not really science? >> >> Anyway the AL2.0 does not have restrictions who can use it or not; my >> guess is it is not directly compatible. > > This is also my guess. > > Luc > >> >> But you really should ask legal@ in this case. I have not seen this >> license listed here: >> http://www.apache.org/legal/3party.html >> >> But they might be able to help you anyway. >> >> Cheers >> Christian >> >>> >>> Sébastien >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >>> >> >> >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
