[Soot-list] Soot Dual License Possible?

[Patrick Lam]

Hi Stephan,

Thanks for your interest in using Soot!

Unfortunately, the principal author of the core of Soot, Raja 
Vallée-Rai, is no longer with us. While we could speculate about what he 
might have considered doing if he were still alive, I don't think that 
we can give permission to relicense on his behalf. To my mind, his 
contributions are still central enough to Soot's functionality today 
that I wouldn't be comfortable without his permission.

His copyright expires in about 40 years, but that's probably too long 
for you to wait. I'm sorry that I don't have better news for you.

pat

On 03/28/2014 04:58 PM, Stephan Ewen wrote:
> Hi everyone!
>
> We have worked quite a bit with soot and like a lot. We would like to
> include some features that perform code analysis it in one of our projects.
>
> The problem is that the project is Apache Licensed and that LGPL is
> incompatible with the Apache Software License 2 (that is actually a
> first hand assessment from an Apache PMC).
>
> I wanted to ask if you would consider offering soot under a different
> license. Some projects offer their libraries under a dual license: There
> is a (L)GPL variant, and a ASL/BSD/MIT licensed variant.
>
> That would allow us to go ahead with our code analysis efforts, based on
> Soot. Otherwise, I think we cannot make the Soot dependent features part
> of our project.
>
> Greetings,
> Stephan
>
>
>
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