@Jitsi, @Atlassian, @Emil
Really great news! Thumbs up for Atlassian, seems to be a cool company
Helpful for licenses comparison:
http://choosealicense.com/licenses/
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2015-06-18 17:45 GMT+02:00 Emil Ivov emcho@jitsi.org:
Hey Zalmoxisus,
Whatever you have retrieved under a specific license you can continue
using under that license.
I don’t believe there are significant differences between MIT and
Apache BUT I am not a lawyer so you shouldn’t trust me on that.
Emil
On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 5:38 PM, Michael Diordiev zalmoxisus@gmail.com wrote:
Hey Emil,
Thanks for good news and the detailed explanation. Could you please explain
also about differences between MIT and Apache? In case we’ve already use
jitsi-meet in production, do we need to update all the files with this
license header or may use it as MIT till we don’t need to merge from
upstream?
Regards,
Zalmoxisus
On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 11:25 AM, Emil Ivov emcho@jitsi.org wrote:
Hey all,
As you all know Blue Jimp has joined Atlassian. With this new partnership,
we are making changes, due to expected growth - thanks to more eyes than
ever on the Jitsi Community.
The first update we will be making is that we are changing our license.
In order to lower adoption barriers, Blue Jimp is switching to the Apache
license and contributor agreement.
Most of you on this list are familiar with differences between Apache and
LGPL, but we wanted to make sure everyone is on the same page:
LGPL, our current license allows everyone to integrate and ship our
various jars. Once you start making changes and distributing them however,
then you you need to make sure these changes are also available under LGPL,
AKA the LGPL reciprocity clause.
As the copyright holder, in BlueJimp we have been been exempt from this
reciprocity clause. Even though we rarely use it, we had the liberty to
modify our code without making our changes public. No one else had this
option.
Switching to Apache ends our advantage in this regard, and allows everyone
to use, integrate and distribute Jitsi with a lot less limitations.
We’ll also be using DocuSign for the Apache Contributor License Agreement,
so we need all existing contributors to sign the Apache CLA, but thanks to
DocuSign, signing up for the new license will be just a few clicks.
Cheers,
Emil
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