[License-discuss] GPL and proprietary WebAPIs

Chad Perrin perrin at apotheon.com
Fri Dec 23 17:49:29 UTC 2011


On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 03:38:04AM -0800, Chris Travers wrote:
> 
> Thus in general I think one is generally better off talking with
> upstream projects and trying to get them on board.

Take the most restrictive reasonable interpretation of both if you want
to play it safe.  After all, a change in the upstream project's
maintainership could get you in a lot of trouble if you rely entirely on
the legally non-binding word of a project maintainer.

-- 
Chad Perrin



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