Re: Change License - Mailing list psycopg
| From | Abraham Elmahrek |
|---|---|
| Subject | Re: Change License |
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| Msg-id | CAOvM-cjREfcTZNDLsDwWLwRn1VpGxRCJGD4qqyZhuc1umDD0_Q@mail.gmail.com Whole thread Raw |
| In response to | Re: Change License (Federico Di Gregorio <fog@dndg.it>) |
| Responses |
Re: Change License
(Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
Re: Change License (Ian Dees <ian.dees@gmail.com>) Re: Change License (Karsten Hilbert <Karsten.Hilbert@gmx.net>) |
| List | psycopg |
I think the correct page to reference would have been http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html. Sorry about that...
My understanding is that the third-party licensing policy page is simply guidelines for how to interpret ASLv2. The resolved page insists that LGPL shouldn't be included in apache projects. I do think that extends to any project with ASLv2 license since it seems like an interpretation of the license itself.
LGPL is a great license. I can understand why LGPL was chosen for postgresql and its various subprojects. It makes perfect sense to control the rights of a project and guide users to contribute back to the original code base. psycopg2 is, how ever, a client. It seems less likely that a client would be forked than the postgresql code base itself. Also, making a client packageable in every other project seems like a great goal, irrespective of licensing.
Also, thanks for all the responses. It's great to see so much involvement from the community. I definitely appreciate it!
-Abe
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 12:57 AM, Federico Di Gregorio <fog@dndg.it> wrote:
I'd say they are 0. :)On 11/12/2013 03:47, Daniele Varrazzo wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:10 PM, Abraham Elmahrek <abe@cloudera.com> wrote:
>> > Hey Guys,
>> >
>> > Thanks for the speedy responses. I work on the Hue project at Cloudera. Hue
>> > is an ASLv2 licensed project and according too
>> > http://www.apache.org/legal/3party.htm LGPL is excluded from the list of
>> > shippable licenses. The end goal is to be able to ship psycopg2 since it's a
>> > complete client for postgresql that django fully supports.
> Note: the correct url above is <http://www.apache.org/legal/3party.html>.
>
> I didn't know the Apache Software Foundation was in open war with the
> GPL. Well, too bad: it seems you chose the wrong license for your
> software.
>
> We could be able to provide a personal, non-transferable license for
> projects whose lawyers insist to require it; however your license
> seems to forbid this option too.
>
> I'm afraid the chance to see psycopg released with a non-LGPL license
> are quite low.Non vi sono certezze, solo opportunità. -- V
federico
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