Re: Licensing Clarification
Posted by
Michael Bien on
Jul 01, 2010; 8:32pm
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/Licensing-Clarification-tp936617p937174.html
Hello Rob,
JOGL, JOAL and JOCL are under the BSD license. I believe term "BSD
style" is from the time when JOGL contributors had to sign the SCA (Sun
Contributor Agreement). We have no reason to follow these terms anymore
and decided to start JogAmp in a pure BSD style. Speak all changes we
made in our JOGL 2 fork are pure BSD.
I remember we had some old SGI OpenGL headers in the repo which were
basically unused (we are using now Khronos headers almost exclusively,
if GL4 work is finished.. exclusively).
It is quite possible that in some places the source headers or license
files are not up2date (you know this is a very boring task). But you
will have to wait until Sven is online again since he is currently the
JOGL lead dev. (could take a week or so until he is available again)
I won't fix the JOGL license files in his repo without discussing it
with him first.
for completeness:
regarding JOCL. We discussed the possibility to license JOCL under
LGPLv3 since we observed from time to time code and concepts moving
into other, differently licensed OpenCL bindings without the
possibility for us to steal something back.
well, the end of the story: we don't care :)
-> BSD
but sure i am not a lawyer (good that you have one). So if your lawyer
finds something we should throw out of the repo or clarify... this
would be actually a great contribution.
thanks,
michael
On 07/01/2010 06:40 PM, rhatcher [via jogamp] wrote:
Michael/Sven/Somebody,
Can you please clarify what the licensing terms are for the products
you're managing under Jogamp? I'm primarily interested in JOGL and
JOAL, but would like to hear about all of them.
I've found a few blurbs around your site that suggest a "BSD style"
license is still in use, at least for JOGL. The bottom of the web page
mentions Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, but I assumed that
was for the site itself.
Can you provide links for all relevant licensing verbiage? We
currently are reviewing our open source and/or free software usage, and
the lawyers are going to want to see the full text.
TIA,
Rob