[legal-discuss] [Fwd: [openstack-dev] How to handle forking of projects]

Richard Fontana rfontana at redhat.com
Thu Jun 6 12:53:16 UTC 2013


On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 10:42:19AM +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> Hey
> 
> Please see the question below about a GPL licensed bundled javascript
> library in Horizon

This is the old jQuery redundant disjunctive MIT|GPL dual-license,
which is equivalent to the MIT license. As such there should be no
legal objection to bundling it based on the license.
 
- Richard


> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> > From: Matthias Runge <mrunge at redhat.com>
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> > To: openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org
> > Subject: [openstack-dev] How to handle forking of projects
> > Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 10:34:41 +0200
> > 
> > Hey,
> > I came to this question over the the following review:
> > https://review.openstack.org/#/c/31725/
> > 
> > The situation is: Horizon ships a bundled library query-table-sorter,
> > which hasn't seen a release since ages.
> > The proposed commit changes the bundled lib, effectively creating a fork.
> > 
> > Is that allowed/desired, or how should we handle this?
> > As a side note, that plugin is licensed as GPL (without a version) and MIT.
> > 
> > Are we allowed to bundle this at all?
> > 
> > Matthias
> > 
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