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["William A. Rowe Jr." <wmrowe@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/17/2010 6:29 PM, Mark Stone wrote:
> I'll talk to Garrett tomorrow about licensing. That may be something I
> can take off his plate, since you guys certainly don't want me
> touching any actual code.
> 
> Off the top of my head I think we want the New BSD License for now, as
> the least restrictive in terms of what code can be combined with what,
> and the most flexible in terms of down stream changes if/when we want
> to move to a different license.

Keep in mind patch contibutions upstream, back to the original projects,
fall under a host of origin-project-specific licenses(!)

I would be concerned that the BSD family offers no patent assurances, and
the AL offers all the same flexibility, with a higher degree of trust in terms
of individual contributions.