[Ilugc] Query on licensing - Apache 2.0
- From: civil.sibi1@xxxxxxxxx (sibi kanagaraj)
- Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 11:38:56 +0530
That would invalidate the requirement that all Apache software must be
released under Apache 2.0 license?
You can combine Apache and GPLv3 code in a project. Also read:
http://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html
Upon reading this
http://tesseract-ocr.repairfaq.org/
and I quote
"Tesseract is a commercial quality OCR engine originally developed at
Hewlett-Packard between 1985 and 1995. In 1995, this engine was among the
top three evaluated by UNLV <
http://www.isri.unlv.edu/ISRI/OCRtk> (link's
dead - read background
here<
http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/wiki/TestingTesseract>).
In 2005, Hewlett-Packard and UNLV open-sourced and it is now freely
available under the Apache
2.0<
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html>license. Most
notably, this means that you
*CAN* use tesseract in a commercial product *WITHOUT* releasing the
sources. That means that you can only *politely ask* to see them... keep
this in mind in the forums!"
unquote
is it possible that , I give my contributions to Tesseract , and still ,
its legally permissible that the code can be used for commecial purpose
without releasing the sources ?
-Sibi
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