Fluid licensing - round 2 of discussion

[Sheila Crossey]

Hi again all Fluid licensing aficionados,

Having digested all the email input on Fluid licensing and talking it through, we're proposing to dual-license Fluid as follows:
Licence 1: ECL 1.0 migrating to ECL 2.0 (satisfies constraint in Mellon IP agreement to license under an ECL licence)
Licence 2: BSD (compatible with GPL allowing combining with GPL code, but non-copyleft to reduce forking issues)

I forgot to mention in my previous email that we weren't considering dropping ECL and single-licensing under a GPL-compatible non-copyleft licence such as BSD. This is because in the Mellon IP agreement we agree to licence under an ECL licence and also this is in synch with Sakai and the higher-education community's effort to come together on licensing, so we want to stick with that.

The discussion on GPLv3 was interesting and enlightening, but it seems on balance to present more problems than it solves and so wouldn't be a net benefit.

So, unless there are some serious objections to this proposed strategy, we'll move ahead with it. The next step will be to select the appropriate BSD licence as there are a few versions. Then we have to make sure that the CCLA and CLA are broad enough to allow us to implement this dual licence.

Thoughts? Opinions?

Sheila

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