[waffle] [PATCH] HACKING.txt: Don't recommend Apache 2.0 for contributions

Chad Versace chad.versace at linux.intel.com
Thu Sep 11 07:52:58 PDT 2014



On 09/09/2014 12:05 AM, Jordan Justen wrote:
> Since waffle changed from Apache 2.0 to BSD in
> 367378863bcc6801f5ae5ad786c09d39e0890370, we should avoid accepting
> contributions under that license for the same reasons.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen at intel.com>
> ---

LGTM.
Reviewed-by: Chad Versace <chad.versace at linux.intel.com>

The mentioning of Apache was unintentional, a product of copy-paste
from an older file.

>   My recommendation is that the wording should request that BSD be
>   used, but note that MIT licensed code would also be accepted.
>
>   The reason is that I think the fewer licenses used, the easier time
>   people have determining how they can use the library.

Yes, that makes sense to me.
  
>   Isn't waffle still 100% BSD-2-clause?

I think so, on master. But Emil imported some third party code for
the WGL support. The imported code has a liberal license, but I don't
remember which one. Take a look in the third_party directory of the
'next' branch.


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