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[Philipp Heckel <philipp.heckel@xxxxxxxxx>]

I researched a lot regarding the licensing stuff before I chose GPLv3.
I chose it not because I believe it's the best license, but because
most other open source projects are GPL licensed.

Here is how I understood it:

To my knowledge, if the a plugin/module/library is not shipped with
the original code, but in a separate package, it can (in most cases)
be used with Syncany. I believe this is similar to Linux packages with
different licenses -- as long as one package is only used by the
other, there is no(?) issues. If, however, it is integrated as an
essential part, there might be an issue (depending on the library).

So if we don't include it in the trunk, this shouldn't be a problem.
But of course it's always nicer to be on the safe side ...

Cheers

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Stefan Mai <ubuntu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Syncany is GPL licensed, which (generally speaking) makes it incompatible
> with a wide variety of licenses. Here's a list of compatible and
> incompatible licenses [1] (which doesn't include the jProductivity license),
> but you can get an idea for what makes a license compatible or not. I think
> 1b is a huge red flag, but IANAL:
>
> (b) jProductivity and its licensors retain all copyrights and other
> intellectual property rights in the Product;
>
> [1] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Jason Irwin <jasonirwin73@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Ok, I found a library that might suffice for connecting to SkyDrive,
>> JLiveID http://www.jproductivity.com/products/jliveid/index.htm
>>
>> It says the code is proprietary, but is freely licensed and the full
>> license is here:
>> http://www.jproductivity.com/products/jliveid/doc/license.htm
>>
>>
>>
>> I am going to hazard a guess this is not compatible with the project but
>> wanted to check before I went through the pain of writing my own log-in
>> handler
>>
>>
>>
>> So far I’ve got it to do a successful log-in to the same service as the
>> SkyDrive client, not gone any further.
>>
>>
>>
>> J.
>>
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