Re: Licensing issues including another projects source code into the jdbc driver

Peter,

I presume you are referring to the 3rd clause? What is the issue with
this clause?

Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Eisentraut [mailto:peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net]
Sent: November 4, 2001 8:05 AM
To: Dave Cramer
Cc: 'Bruce Momjian'; pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Licensing issues including another projects
source code into the jdbc driver

Dave Cramer writes:

> It is using the apache licence
>
> http://www.qos.ch/log4jME/LICENSE.txt
>
> It appears that they allow the code to be used in either binary or
> source as long as their licence remains intact

The apache license has an advertising clause, which is not acceptable.
Getting someone to relicense the software is difficult to impossible if
there is a multitude of outside contributors.

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter