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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.

LicensePossibleWhat we need to doAdaptionsNotes
Apache 2 (ASL)(tick)
  • include a copy of the license and the copyright
  • indicate significant changes to the given code
  
Apache 1.1(tick)
  • include a copy of the license and the copyright
  • indicate significant changes to the given code
  
EPL(tick)
  • include a copy of the license and the copyright
  • source code must be made available
  
LGPL 3(tick)
  • indicate significant changes to the given code
  • include a copy of the license and the copyright
  • source code must be made available
  
GPL 3(error)
  • we can use this if we do not ship it (e.g. within testing)
  
MIT / X / X11(tick)
  • include a copy of the license and the copyright
  
Public Domain(tick)   
Modified BSD(tick)
  • include a copy of the license and the copyright
  
Mozilla Public License (MPL) 2.0(tick)
  • include a copy of the license and the copyright
  • source code must be made available
  
Common Public License (CPL)(tick)   
Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL)(tick)   

 

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 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/

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