ResolvedLegalQuestions

The 3rd party draft policy defines various licenses under various categories. Note that this policy is only in the draft stage, and that the updates at the bottom of this page have not yet been added to that draft. For ease of lookup, the covered licenses are:

• Category A
  • See http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html for licenses under 'similar terms'.
    
• Category B
  • CDDL 1.0
  • CPL 1.0
  • EPL 1.0
  • IPL 1.0
  • MPL 1.0
  • MPL 1.1
  • SPL 1.0
    
• Category X
  • BCL
  • Special exceptions to the GNU GPL (e.g. GNU Classpath)
  • GNU GPL (presumably all versions, including 3.0)
  • GNU LGPL (presumably all versions, including 3.0)
  • NPL 1.0
  • NPL 1.1
  • QPL
  • Sleepycat License
    
    

Refer to the policy as to what the various categories mean, and reasons for why a specific license may be placed into a given category.

In addition, the following modifications have been accepted on legal-discuss@:

• Category X
  • JavaCC generated code from an LGPL grammar
  • GNU AGPL
  • OSL