[OWASP-LEADERS] RE: License question

[David Raphael]

Well, oPortal's external libraries WILL be LGPL'ed.  Currently we do 
not have the portlet API released.  Therefore there is no issue at the 
moment.  When we go to release the portlet code we will license it with 
the LGPL.

If there are currently any API's that need to be relicensed, then I am 
fully supportive of those licenses being changed.  I really do not care 
if the whole of oPortal is relicensed to LGPL.  If there is some 
condition that warrants this, then I am ok with 100% license change - 
and this should be acceptable with the FSF as well.  I believe that we 
have been adding Source Code comments from a Template.  We can change 
this template as well.


Regards,
David Raphael
oPortal Leader

On Nov 28, 2003, at 8:17 AM, Mark Curphey wrote:

> I am not a licensing expert but I know we have some people on the 
> project who are pretty well up on this sort of thing. Guys, any 
> comments ?
>
>
> From: Aral Balkan [mailto:aral at bitsandpixels.co.uk]
> Sent: Friday, November 28, 2003 5:54 AM
> To:owasp at owasp.org
>
> Hi,
>  
> I believe I have a firm grasp of the GPL license as it pertains to 
> software itself, however in this case, if we were to use oPortal, 
> could custom portlets that we create have to be released under GPL? 
> Would a site that uses oPortal come under GPL?
>  
> Thanks,
> Aral
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