[iks-community] help on choosing a license

[Stéphane Croisier]

>And last my personal opinion: I'd prefer a BSDish license, but GPLish
>would be fine too.

Any viral license will not be ok with most of us 
(dual-licensing kind of commercial open source 
editors or simply proprietary ones). Let's try to 
stick to a business-friendly kind of license 
(BSD, Apache,...). If some really require GPL for 
some compatibility reasons, a dual licensing 
schema would be fine (kind of dual ASL/GPL for example).

In term of CLA or CCLA I think we could perfectly 
reuse a derivative of the Apache ones (http://www.apache.org/licenses/).

Personally I do not have any issue to grant some 
rights directly to the Salzburg University which 
could act as the underlying "Foundation". But if 
some academics or industrial partners prefer to 
create another distinct Foundation or Association 
on the model of the Apache one (a kind of 
Semantic Foundation which would host all 
sub-semantic initiatives with a kind of long term 
oriented meritocracy and some ambitions to create 
a long term community which will long further 
than the 4 years of the initial UE project), I think this could be great.

But this could also perfectly done in a second 
phase as rapidly opening new Apache Sandboxes in 
a first phase (such as the new 
<http://incubator.apache.org/chemistry/>Apache 
Chemistry project for CMIS) might initially 
provide a better leverage on existing community 
of developers, ensure a certain level of "trust" 
for such projects and help create a marketing 
momentum around them (Apache is better known than IKS for the moment ;-) ).

Cheers,
Stéphane

At 08:51 03.06.2009, Jens W. Klein wrote:

>If you need consulting in European Open Source License questions you
>best asked:
>
>      I. iFROSS http://www.ifross.de/ (Axel Metzger helpes us MPI
>         internally with our MPI project and Julia Küng (originally from
>         Innsbruck) held years ago a talk about the topic at IFIT - an
>         FOSS-conference in Innsbruck where my wife an I was initiator.
>     II. Free Software Foundation Europe (they work close together with
>         iFROSS anyway)
>
>And last my personal opinion: I'd prefer a BSDish license, but GPLish
>would be fine too.
>
>hth and regards
>Jens
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