[iks-community] Aloha license Re: IKS Semantic Editor hackathon in Helsinki on July 26-27

[Bertrand Delacretaz]

Hi,

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Henri Bergius <henri.bergius at nemein.com> wrote:
> ...jQuery, the javascript framework used with Aloha is dual licensed
> under MIT and GPL.
>
> I know BSD is more familiar to the Apache people here. But as Aloha is
> something that runs entirely in the browser and only interfaces with
> your CMS through some REST APIs, will license compatibility really
> matter?...

I agree that the license does not matter much w.r.t using Aloha
alongside software distributed by the Apache Software Foundation. It
would matter if Apache people would want to distribute Aloha with
their software, which is when http://apache.org/legal/resolved.html
applies.

>
> As I wrote on the Semantic Editor page, the main deal with licensing
> for our editor is to fit in the licensing scheme of the javascript
> ecosystem it builds on, not particularly target some server-side
> conventions like ASF...

Agree with that, as Aloha is javascript client-side software it is
probably a good idea to go with that flow. Dual MIT + GPL license
looks good to me if the Aloha authors want GPL. And maybe just MIT or
BSD or AL for the plugins , as opposed to the core.

-Bertrand