[tahoe-dev] Is TGPPL compatible with Apache license?

Greg Troxel gdt at ir.bbn.com
Sat May 11 22:42:53 UTC 2013


"Daira Hopwood (formerly David-Sarah)" <davidsarah at leastauthority.com>
writes:

> Hmm, zfec does *not* appear to have the "added permissions" that
> Tahoe-LAFS has in
> COPYING.GPL and COPYING.TGPPL.rst, in particular:
>
>   This work also comes with the added permission that you may combine
>   it with a work licensed under the Apache Licence (any version) and
>   distribute the resulting combined work, as long as you follow the
>   requirements of the licences of this work in regard to all of the
>   resulting combined work aside from the work licensed under the
>   Apache Licence.
>
> It probably should.

So two comments:

I consider myself pretty clueful about open source licensing, and I
don't understand what the above means.

This reminds me that (as far as I have heard) the lack of clarity
continues over governance of entities holding copyright on
tahoe-associated code.
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