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Re: What license should I use when including code from subversion?

From: Justin Erenkrantz <justin_at_erenkrantz.com>
Date: 2004-03-03 05:25:07 CET

--On Tuesday, March 2, 2004 2:43 PM +0000 Philip Martin
<philip@codematters.co.uk> wrote:

> Another problem: Subversion's build/ac-macros/find_apr.m4 is a direct
> copy of apr's file, and similarly for apr-util's find_apu.m4. I think
> these files are intended for use by third-parties, that's implied by a
> comment in apr/CHANGES, but I don't see any acknowledgement exemption.
> To further muddy the waters, the CVS history appears to show that
> these are largely the work of Subversion developers so I guess they
> could (and perhaps did?) contribute them to Subversion.

There is no acknowledgement clause in the Apache License 2.0 - which is what
all of APR/httpd/etc has been relicensed under. The only thing you must
include is the NOTICE file, which if we just place a source tarball/snapshot
under our tree, Subversion will satisfy that requirement. -- justin

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