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This page lists our current understanding of which license we can use for our Apache v2 product and what we need to think on.
License | Possible | What we need to do |
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Apache 2 (ASL) |
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Apache 1.1 |
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EPL |
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- we can use this if we do not ship it (e.g. within testing)
LGPL 3 |
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MIT / X / X11 |
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Public Domain |
Modified BSD |
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Mozilla Public License (MPL) 2.0 |
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Common Public License (CPL) |
Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) |
GPL or AGPL |
| GPL based licenses use a strong copyleft that necessitate that as soon as you create a derivative work, this needs to be licensed GPL as well. |
For further licenses that come up, check the wiki page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_and_open-source_software_licenses and/or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License#Compatibility_and_multi-licensing - they list whether or not a given license is compatbile with another license.
Necessary steps to comply with a license.
To To check what needs to be done by us in order to comply with the restrictions of a license, we can check here: http://choosealicense.com/licenses/