Licensing Policy and modified Apache License

[Luigi Toscano]

Jonathan Riddell ha scritto:
> On Thu, 12 Mar 2020 at 15:41, L. E. Segovia <amy at amyspark.me
> <mailto:amy at amyspark.me>> wrote:
> 
>     The modification in question is located here:
>     https://github.com/wdas/SeExpr/blob/master/LICENSE
> 
>     > Copyright Disney Enterprises, Inc.  All rights reserved.
>     >
>     > Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
>     > you may not use this file except in compliance with the License
>     > and the following modification to it: Section 6 Trademarks.
>     > deleted and replaced with:
>     >
>     > 6. Trademarks. This License does not grant permission to use the
>     > trade names, trademarks, service marks, or product names of the
>     > Licensor and its affiliates, except as required for reproducing
>     > the content of the NOTICE file.
>     >
>     > You may obtain a copy of the License at
>     > http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
> 
>     Since my proposal for GSoC 2020 will involve linking Krita with that
>     library, I wanted to check if that would be OK with you
> 
> 
> The difference is mostly that they removed
> "except as required for reasonable and customary use in describing the origin
> of the Work"
> as this is not restricted by law anyway it's not something they can license to
> us so it makes no difference.  Go ahead and use it.
> 

IANAL, but according the FSF, Apache 2.0 is only compatible with GPL3, so that
should make everything GPL3:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#apache2

And also:
https://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html

-- 
Luigi