1 Oct 22:52
Re: simple question
Kim Galileo <kim.galieo <at> yahoo.com>
2006-10-01 20:52:04 GMT
2006-10-01 20:52:04 GMT
Very sorry to bring this up again, this is the licensing clarification you had from your website.
1. You should note that it is not possible to combine ModSecurity licensed under GPLv2 with the Apache web server. This is because GPLv2 is not compatible with any of the Apache licences. (For more information see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#GPLIncompatibleLicenses.)
What does this mean, do we have legal and defendable license to use mod-security on apache. This broughtup by our manager, unless we know it is legal and there are no surprises we can't continue to work towards production based on modsecurity. What are we missing, would you calrify please.
Thanks,
Ivan Ristic <ivan.ristic <at> gmail.com> wrote:
On 9/26/06, Kim Galileo wrote:
>
> I think community involvement becomes difficult because of Apache and GPL
> incomptiblity issues. Let us say you are not with the new company, does
> community and you have legal rights to continue development of mod-security.
> OpenBSD and NetBSD (which is for profit) co-existed because they were
> catering to different user communities, one needs support and othe doesn't.
> There will be less maintenance too, Apache foundation supports several
> important components community needs like mod-ssl, mod-proxy etc. Exisitng
> mod-security users do they really have legal license to use the product,
> because of this incompatiblity issue. By adopting single license these
> problems can be avoided.
I chose GPLv2 for ModSecurity because I believed it would serve its
needs better. GPLv2 ensures whoever adds to the product must give the
changes back to the community and this is exactly why I like it. I
understand this can be debated but I wouldn't want our email exchange
to turn into a licensing debate. I made my choice a long time ago and
it has nothing to do with Breach Security and the acquisition :)
I am not afraid for ModSecurity in the slightest. It's an open source
product based around a very strong licence. It cannot die if the
community doesn't want it to die.
--
Ivan Ristic, Technical Director
Thinking Stone, http://www.thinkingstone.com
ModSecurity: Open source Web Application Firewall
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