why not use the same license as DOJO?

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I didn't see any mailing list / group to discuss this so thought I"d try raise 
an issue.

DOJO is liberally licensed under BSD or Artistic. Though Tatami is LGPL - any 
reason why a different 
license is used? I ask only that we cannot use LGPL code at Apache...
http://people.apache.org/~cliffs/3party.html

and I'd hate us to have to create another GWT wrapper for DOJO so that folks at 
Apache can use 
DOJO from GWT. Would you consider dual licensing?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by james.st...@gmail.com on 16 Nov 2007 at 12:19

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Definitely yes. We'll use dual licensing, if necessary. Can you help us to 
solve this
issue ?

Original comment by hdar...@gmail.com on 16 Nov 2007 at 2:11

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Awesome news! :)

Sure - its just a simple matter of saying that the project is licensed under 
either LGPL or (say) BSD / Apache / 
Artistic. (Apache 2.0 is the easiest http://apache.org/licenses/ but pick any 
suitable one: 
http://people.apache.org/~cliffs/3party.html)

See : http://dojotoolkit.org/book/dojo-book-0-9/introduction/licensing

to change the license you just need the permission of all the committers to 
agree to the new license terms.

Original comment by james.st...@gmail.com on 16 Nov 2007 at 3:05

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LGPL v3 is compatible with the Apache licence, as you could see on the graphic 
in
this page:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/quick-guide-gplv3.html

Hope it helps.

Original comment by jrd...@gmail.com on 29 Nov 2007 at 3:22

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Unfortunately it doesn't help as things don't work the other way around.

Here's a list of all the licenses which are allowed at the Apache Software 
Foundation
http://people.apache.org/~cliffs/3party.html

i.e. Apache projects can't touch anything *GPL at all. The same is true of the
company I work - and I know of lots of other companies who explicitly disallow 
the
use of *GPL due to its viral nature.

So Apache folks like me can't touch Tatami - so we'd have to create a Tatami 
like
open source project to provide GWT wrapping of DOJO using DOJO's Apache license 
if we
wanted to use GWT and DOJO. 

Which kinda means we'd not be able to work with Tatami at all and would have to 
clone
it - just because you chose to use a different license to DOJO itself which 
seems odd.

Original comment by james.st...@gmail.com on 29 Nov 2007 at 3:30

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