I downloaded my version of 253b source as a tagged release from CVS ... it and I might add the current license on http://www.compiere.org/license.html DO NOT contain these "amendments" that restrict use of the Logo & at the same time do allow it's removal!
croo wrote:I know I said this before but can I repeat.
I downloaded my version of 253b source as a tagged release from CVS ... it and I might add the current license on http://www.compiere.org/license.html DO NOT contain these "amendments" that restrict use of the Logo & at the same time do allow it's removal!
colin
With all due respect to the legal profession, this would be fearful nonsense. The language of these licenses is as clear as legalese gets — they were written to be clear — and should not be at all hard to understand if you read it carefully. The lawyers and courts are actually more confused than you are. The law of software rights is murky, and case law on open-source licenses is (as of mid-2003) nonexistent; no one has ever been sued under them.
This means a lawyer is unlikely to have a significantly better insight than a careful lay reader. But lawyers are professionally paranoid about anything they don't understand. So if you ask one, he is rather likely to tell you that you shouldn't go anywhere near open-source software, despite the fact that he probably doesn't understand the technical aspects or the author's intentions anywhere near as well as you do.
Legal: Obviously, you must be sure you actually own the code. Otherwise, you are not the one who can select the license.
- We're going to need a License for Documentation
So an addition or deletion from the contents of a file or any new file that contains part of the original code... so if we write completely new modules or replace whole files completely then that is not a modification so we are free to use any other license.
croo wrote:I think (again I'm not sure) that if we WERE to breach the contact
if You fail to comply with terms herein and fail to cure such breach within 30 days of becoming aware of the breach
croo wrote:As for using freePDF and Jasper, well I'm not sure exactly how they are integrated, but if they are simply tools used, i.e. libraries included, I do not see why we cannot use them?
croo wrote:But Compiere for example can uses JBoss with no obligations to use its license ... I don't see how using pdfFree of Jasper would be any different. And I see for example in the directory Compiere2/jboss/server/compiere/lib there is a Sun Public License /Gnu Lesser Public License for BeanShell
mewrote:We're going to need a License for Documentation
red1 wrote:As IANA, To make life simple just tell me what license and wordings to place in my codes for now. Otherwise i leave it empty and fill it in later. As i still need to make them synch with any new codes.
/******************************************************************************
* The contents of this file are subject to the Compiere License Version 1.1
* ("License"); You may not use this file except in compliance with the License
* You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.adempiere.org/license.html
* Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" basis,
* WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for
* the specific language governing rights and limitations under the License.
* The Original Code is Compiere ERP & CRM Smart Business Solution. The Initial
* Developer of the Original Code is Jorg Janke. Portions created by Jorg Janke
* are Copyright (C) 1999-2005 Jorg Janke.
* All parts are Copyright (C) 1999-2005 ComPiere, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
* Contributor(s): ______________________________________.
*****************************************************************************/
/******************************************************************************
* The contents of this file are subject to the Compiere License Version 1.1
* ("License"); You may not use this file except in compliance with the License
* You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.adempiere.org/license.html
* Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" basis,
* WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for
* the specific language governing rights and limitations under the License.
* The Original Code is ADempiere code.
* Contributor(s): ______________________________________.
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ADempiere must be clean of licensing problems.
Beware that I am not a lawyer
you may also choose to use such Covered Code under the terms of any subsequent version of the License published by ComPiere
trifon wrote:Can't we ask JasperReports to provide us LGPL License?
croo wrote:But one point I'm not clear on, why do you say we can't integrate libraries?
We don't modify them?
We distribute the source code verbatim, unmodified with their appropriate license?
I'm not arguing we can ... I just don't understand why we can't!?
croo wrote:So it would seem to me we risk compiere (and they alone as they are named) creating a later license with stipulations that we do not want!? Perhaps even closing down on the openness!?
/******************************************************************************
* The contents of this file are subject to the Compiere License Version 1.1
* ("License"); You may not use this file except in compliance with the License
* You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.adempiere.org/licensecpl.html
* Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" basis,
* WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for
* the specific language governing rights and limitations under the License.
* The Original Code is Compiere ERP & CRM Smart Business Solution. The Initial
* Developer of the Original Code is Jorg Janke. Portions created by Jorg Janke
* are Copyright (C) 1999-2005 Jorg Janke.
* All parts are Copyright (C) 1999-2005 ComPiere, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
* Contributor(s): ______________________________________.
*****************************************************************************/
/******************************************************************************
* The contents of this file are subject to the ADempiere License Version 1.1
* ("License"); You may not use this file except in compliance with the License
* You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.adempiere.org/licenseadpl.html
* Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" basis,
* WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for
* the specific language governing rights and limitations under the License.
* The Original Code is ADempiere code.
* Contributor(s): ______________________________________.
*****************************************************************************/
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