While the GPL v3 is a more recognized and established open source license, the recently-released EUPL v1.1 is making waves licensing world. Unique in its encouragement of interoperability, freedom, and lack of license lock-in upon redistribution, the EUPL it represents a divergence from the typical freedoms afforded by GPL and most other OSI-approved licenses.
Archives for the ‘Open Source Licensing’ Category
Freedom and Choice in Open Source Licensing: Comparing the EUPL v1.1 and the GPL v3
By Ernest Park • Jun 11th, 2009 • Category: Open Source Licensing
Comparing Open Source Licenses
By Dave McLoughlin • Oct 1st, 2008 • Category: Comparisons, Open Source LicensingThe OpenLogic Certified Library includes hundreds of projects and over 225 different licenses, most of which are based — at least loosely — on one of the 18 most commonly used license types. We’ve laid out for you in table form a detailed comparison of the common features of these licenses.
The Touchier Points of Determining the License of an Open Source Project
By Kimberly McClintock • Sep 4th, 2008 • Category: Open Source LicensingFiguring out the licensing terms of the open source gadget you’d like to use in in the widget you’re prototyping (and hope to offer for sale next quarter) is not as difficult as, say, absorbing the details of evolutionary biology, but neither is it a guaranteed walk in the park. In other words, it’s not dreadfully difficult, but often…
3GPP Library Licensing Case Study
By Content Team • Aug 1st, 2008 • Category: Open Source LicensingSpecifications can be a challenge because often times a specification itself is not open source but a reference implementation is, or vice-versa. In this case, OpenLogic could find no open source license or statements as to whether the project was open source, though a statement was found indicating that the specification is free for commercial use.
Cobertura Licensing Case Study
By Content Team • Aug 1st, 2008 • Category: Open Source LicensingThe license issue in this case is that Cobertura is dual licensed under the Apache 1.1 and the GPL V2 licenses. The Ant tasks are licensed under the Apache 1.1 license. Because the Ant tasks are loaded directly into the runtime of Ant, and the GPL is incompatible with all versions of the Apache license, Ant tasks can’t be licensed under the GPL.
gSOAP Licensing Case Study
By Content Team • Aug 1st, 2008 • Category: Open Source LicensingMulti-licensed projects are a common source of confusion for users of open source software. In this instance, OpenLogic was able to clarify the intent and obligations of the three unique licensing options. As a service to our customers and the community at-large, we’ve added an entry to the OLEX knowledge base which explains the licensing of gSOAP in detail. Perhaps as a result of our input and inquiries, the project has also updated their Web site to explain the license situation more clearly.
JACL Licensing Case Study
By Content Team • Aug 1st, 2008 • Category: Open Source LicensingDuring the Certification of Jacl 1.4.1 in May 2008, OpenLogic discovered that versions of Jacl previous to 1.4 were licensed under a proprietary copyright statement. This statement is included as a text file in the distribution as the “Jacl License”. The project Web site offered no additional information on the license….
