Donald Szeto wrote on 9/29/16 6:13 PM: > Hi all, > > I have searched around the Internet and haven't seen this discussed > (appreciate pointers if I missed any existing discussion). > > The exception: https://www.mysql.com/about/legal/licensing/foss-exception/ > > I am curious how Apache view this exception. Is it okay for Apache source > code to depends on it? What about binaries? Appreciate any input. Thanks!
My bet is no, because it doesn't meet Apache's license criteria: https://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#criteria In particular, the ASF's intent is that third parties may take Apache software releases and use or redistribute a variety of works based on them without any additional restrictions other than the permissive Apache license. This is intended to apply for further redistributions as well, where the third party's licensing would permit it. That is, our policy explicitly tries to avoid special cases that the *ASF* might be able to take advantage of, but that a *redistributor* of a larger work including our Apache released software might not be able to take advantage of (because they use a different or commercial license for some of the work). - Shane --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
