[Tux4kids-discuss] [GSoC 12] Mixing APL 2.0 / MIT / CC-0 licenses with GPLv3?

Pere Pujal i Carabantes perepujal at gmail.com
Thu Jul 5 06:56:32 UTC 2012


El dt 03 de 07 de 2012 a les 22:16 -0700, en/na Kento Locatelli va
escriure:
> Hey guys,
> 
> I wanted to run a licensing concern by the community before moving 
> forward with my project... maybe someone can offer some advice, even if 
> we don't have any lawyers on the list?
> 
> Currently my project use several different 3rd party libraries and I 
> wanted to make sure there weren't any legal issues re-distributing them 
> under the GPLv3. All the libraries are either MIT or APL 2.0. My 
> understanding is that both are fully compatible with GPLv3, so I can 
> include libraries in the distributed source code with the GPL license 
> covering everything right?
> And the same question applies to CC-0 game assets. As far as I'm aware 
> it's basically formalized public domain, so I should be able to include 
> it in the project licensed under the GPLv3 right?


Not being myself a lawyer and not knowing all of these licenses, which 
license is APL?, I would follow the guides of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_software_licences
and hope for the best.


Yours
Pere





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