Minni: Lightweight MapReduce Library

Licensing

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Discussion page with notes on various licenses we need to consider.

Introduction

Making notes about the various licenses that affect libminni becuase of dependencies, and also potential licenses we may want to use in the future.

Dependencies

Apache License, Version 2.0

  • Apache Thrift
  • HDFS
  • KFS

GPL v2, with the Runtime Exception

  • Intel TBB

Proposed Potential Licenses

Only considering licenses allowing proprietary development and that are do not apply themselves to derivatives in restrictive ways.

  1. LGPLv3
  2. MIT
  3. BSD

Created: 14 years 7 months ago
by Wolfgang Richter

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