Licensing Policy and modified Apache License

[Carl Schwan]

Le jeudi, mars 12, 2020 4:18 PM, Luigi Toscano <luigi.toscano at tiscali.it> a écrit :

> 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

Krita is already licensed under GPL3, so I don't think it will create any problems.

Carl

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> 

> Luigi

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