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<tbody><tr><td style="width:auto"><span name="Nick Yeates" style="font-size:13px"><font color="#000000">Nick Yeates wrote:</font></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#000000">>I too am curious what </font>this "compilation license"ing is and what its benefits are. Mr Kuhn >asked, and Larry responded saying basically 'its not so odd - I use it often' and Larry did >not state *why* he advises use of this licensing strategy from a business, social or other >standpoint.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">>1) Why?</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">>2) What is the "standard" way of doing this?</span><br>
<div><br></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Frequent cases are submitted when developers (in particular European administrations and Member states) have build applications from multiple components, plus adding their own code, and want to use a single license for distributing the whole compilation. In many cases their policy is to use the European Union Public Licence (EUPL) for administrative or linguistic reasons (using a license with working value in multiple languages). Therefore I published a matrix on Joinup </font><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">(</span><a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/software/page/eupl/eupl-compatible-open-source-licences" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/software/page/eupl/eupl-compatible-open-source-licences</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">).</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">(the matrix should be updated due to new license versions, i.e. the recent OSI-approved CeCILL 2.1 which is now fully EUPL and GPL compatible)</span><br></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br>
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2013/9/10 Nick Yeates <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nyeates1@umbc.edu" target="_blank">nyeates1@umbc.edu</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
>From <a href="http://www.redhat.com/f/pdf/corp/RH-3573_284204_TM_Gd.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.redhat.com/f/pdf/corp/RH-3573_284204_TM_Gd.pdf</a><br>
> At the same time, the combined body of work that constitutes Red Hat®<br>
> Enterprise Linux® is a collective work which has been organized by Red<br>
> Hat, and Red Hat holds the copyright in that collective work.<br>
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Bradley Kuhn wrote at 15:46 on Monday:<br>
> … It's admittedly a strange behavior,<br>
> and I've been asking Red Hat Legal for many years now to explain better<br>
> why they're doing this and what they believe it's accomplishing.<br>
<br>
Larry Rosen wrote at 23:28 on Thursday:<br>
<div>> I often recommend that licensing method to those of my clients who combine<br>
> various FOSS works into a single software package. It isn't odd at all. Even<br>
> if GPL applies to one or more of those internal components, there is no need<br>
> to license the entire collective work under the GPL. We've even distributed<br>
> GPL software as part of collective works under the OSL.<br>
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</div>I too am curious what this "compilation license"ing is and what its benefits are. Mr Kuhn asked, and Larry responded saying basically 'its not so odd - I use it often' and Larry did not state *why* he advises use of this licensing strategy from a business, social or other standpoint.<br>
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1) Why larry?<br>
2) What is the "standard" way of doing this? How do most other org's license many works together?<br>
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Full disclosure: I work for Red Hat, though am writing this from my personal account and perspective. I am a beginner on my knowledge into OSS license details, so please realize that I am attempting to learn. I could go and ask around in my company about this, yet I would rather engage with the community on this for now.<br>
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-Nick Yeates<br>
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