[License-discuss] Proposal: Apache Third Party License Policy

[cowan at ccil.org]

Lawrence Rosen scripsit:

> Q: Which OSI-approved licenses (including MPL, EPL, and the like) are
> *compatible for aggregating* with ALv2 software without "infecting" the
> rest of the aggregated work?

All of it, per OSD #1 and the usual understanding of "aggregate".
The OED3 defines the relevant sense of "aggregate" as "To gather (articles,
videos, or other items of digital content) from the Internet and present
them to the user on a single web site, application, etc."

But what ASF seems to care about is: "What, as a matter of policy, should
aggregates published by the ASF contain?"  That has little to do with
license compatibility within the aggregation, and everything to do with
what guarantees ASF (or any similar publisher) wishes to provide to its
customers.

I happen to think that their A, B, and X lists make a lot of sense and
are substantially correct.

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