Previously Asked QuestionsPurpose and Intended AudienceThis page provides a history of the answers to questions asked on the legal discuss mailing list. As each answer is as much dictated by Apache Software Foundation ASF. ASF projects. Software License CriteriaThe following criteria serve as guidelines for the answers on this page. The license must meet the Open Source Definition. The license must not place restrictions on the distribution of independent works that simply use or contain the covered work. The license must not place restrictions on the distribution of larger works, other than to require that the covered component still complies with the conditions of its license. Asking QuestionsPlease submit questions to the Legal Affairs Committee JIRA space. Can ASF PMCs host projects that are not under the Apache LicenseNo. See the. Apache Software Foundation licenses page. Apache Software Foundation page. For the purposes of being included in an Apache product, which licenses are considered to be similar in terms to the Apache License 2. Homepage of Wink, a tutorial and presentation authoring software. Powered by Nutch, it searches for content which can be reused for some uses without having to pay or ask permission. You can also participate in CCs email discussion lists and share feedback and ideas in one of those forums. If you are a software developer, sysadmin, or have other. Free software or libre software is computer software distributed under terms that allow the software users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study. Purpose and Intended Audience Software License Criteria Asking Questions Previously Asked Questions. Can ASF PMCs host projects that are not under the Apache License Transforming media into collaborative spaces with video, voice, and text commenting. Works under the following licenses may be included within Apache products Many of these licenses have specific attribution terms that need to be adhered to, often by adding. NOTICE file. Ensure you are doing this when including these works. Note, this list is colloquially known. Category A list. Which licenses may NOT be included within Apache productsThis list is colloquially known as the Category X list. Further discussion of disallowed licenses BCLOracles originally Suns Binary Code License falls far short of the Open Source Definition, thereby violating the first criterion for license approval. NPLThe Netscape Public License is the original license for Mozilla containing. STSWSTM32078 STM32VLDISCOVERY firmware package AN3268, STSWSTM32078, STMicroelectronics. Netscape. These. amendments allow Netscape now part of AOL to avoid the. This. disqualifies the license from meeting Open Source Definition 5 No. Discrimination Against Persons or Groups. GNU GPLGNU Affero GPLDiscussion of Apache License v. GPL Compatibility merits a separate page. GNU LGPLThe LGPL is ineligible primarily due to the restrictions it places on larger works. Special exceptions to the GNU GPLSome copyright holders have licensed their works under the GPL with. Although these exceptions may appear to be. ASFs first and second. This references terms. GPL that include works that use or contain the. CPOLDue to restrictions see 5. Open Source. Definition, thereby violating the first criterion for license approval. Field of use restrictions. Some licenses restrict the uses to which software licensed under them may be used. Two examples that limit use to company platforms are the Microsoft Limited Public. License and the Amazon Software License. Another license in this section is the JSON License which limits use to Good, not Evil. Non commercial licenses. Pc 200 In 1 Game Real Arcade 1 Game. Another form of limitation on field of use is a non commercial license. Common examples are the range of Creative Commons licenses with the. Non Commercial NC clauses included. Facebook BSDPatents license. The Facebook BSDPatents license includes a specification of a PATENTS file that. Apache. legal policy of being a universal donor. The terms of Facebook BSDPatents license are not a subset of those found in the ALv. ALv. 2. How should Weak Copyleft Licenses be handledEach license in this category requires some degree of reciprocity or other. DRM provision this may mean that. Apache product will create a derivative work of a differently licensed. Apache product without being aware of the applicable. Software under the following licenses may be included in binary form. Apache product if the inclusion is appropriately labeled see below By including only the objectbinary form, there is less exposed. By attaching an appropriate and prominent label to the distribution. Apache License. Please include the. URL to the products homepage in the prominent label. An appropriate and. README. Please also ensure to comply with. For small amounts of source that is directly consumed by the ASF. An example of this is the web facesconfig10. JSR 1. 27 Java. Server Faces specification. This is colloquially known as the Category B list. Can Apache projects have external dependencies on Ruby licensed worksA project written primarily and obviously in Ruby can have a dependency either on Matzs Ruby Interpreter MRI. Gem which is licensed under the Ruby license. Of course Gems written under other licenses such as MIT may also be OK, depending on the license. Also note that the Ruby license is listed on the Category B Weak Copyleft list below for binary usage for example JRuby. Can Apache projects include Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike worksUnmodified media under the. Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 2. Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3. Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4. Apache products, subject to the licenses attribution clauses which may require. LICENSENOTICEREADME changes. For any other type of CC SA licensed work, please contact the Legal PMC. Can Apache products include works licensed under the JSON licenseNo. As of 2. 01. 6 1. Category X license list. Prior to this, use of the JSON Java library was allowed. See Debians page for a list of alternatives. Doug Leas concurrent library is public domain, but contains some Sun files which are not public domain. Can this be included in an Apache productYes, treat it much as you currently would the Category B licenses above. Apache product if the inclusion. If using the source, remove the files Sun licensed to Doug and. Category A or get it from. Harmony. Can OSGi metadata be added to weak copyleft binaries thus modifying the binary jar fileInsertion of OSGi metadata into Category B licensed jars is. Category B language calls for. Can Cobertura reports be included in Apache distributionsYes. Does it matter what platform an Apache product is created to work withIt does not matter, unless the terms for that platform affect. Apache products licensing. For example, creating a product that. Windows or Java, uses a web service such as Google Services or. Yahoo Search, or is a plugin for a product such as JBoss or JIRA is fine, whereas. Linux kernel module is not fine because the Apache product. Apache License, version 2. Note that this does not mean the platform code itself can be redistributed. That of course will. Also, if you have any doubts as to whether the licensing. Apache code, we recommend that you check the legal discuss. Can Apache projects distribute components under prohibited licensesApache projects cannot distribute any such components. This means that no source code can be from Category X and that any convenience binaries produced may not include such contents. As with the previous question on platforms, the component can be relied on if the components license terms do not affect the Apache products licensing. For example, using a GPLed tool during the build is OK, however including GPLed source code is not. Can Apache projects rely on components under prohibited licensesApache projects cannot distribute any such components within their releases. However, if the component is only needed for optional features, a project can provide the user with instructions on how. Optional means that the component is not required for. The question to. ask yourself in this situation is Will the majority of users want to use my product without adding the optional componentsDoes the Yahoo Domain. Keys Patent License Agreement v.