On Aug 15, 2010, at 11:52 AM, Urs Lerch wrote:
Hi
Thanks for the feedback.
If it's been GPL-licensed, you'll need the permission of all
contributors
to re-license it. Have you kept meticulous records of all
contributions
over the lifetime of the project so you can expect to be able to
contact
everyone?
Since the software has been developed by only two persons, both in
paid
employment, and the their employer has a declared interest in entering
the Apache Incubator, I see no problem concerning the re-licencing.
What about the required OSS-licensed components? You mention
MySQL - you'd (probably) want a specific exception for that, in the
manner of the APR's one.
Although I am no lawyer, in my understanding the database is not
part of
the software and therefore the licence of MySQL (or any other
database)
is no subject here. Maybe someone with legal know how might clarify
this
point.
IANAL either. At Apache we encourage the use of dependencies that are
licensed with an Apache-compatible license but we are not strict about
it. We have projects with dependencies on such things as Microsoft
Windows. We have had projects with hard dependencies on Java before
Java was open source.
Since ALOIS is written in Ruby, it might be easy enough to add a
database-independence layer to remove the hard dependency on MySQL.
Not a reason to turn away the project.
Craig
Best regards
Urs
Craig L Russell
Architect, Oracle
http://db.apache.org/jdo
408 276-5638 mailto:craig.russ...@oracle.com
P.S. A good JDO? O, Gasp!
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