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Apereo/Sakai Licenses are now managed from http://www.apereo.org/licensing/agreements
License Management Practice
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All software produced by The Apereo Foundation or any of its projects or subjects is licensed according to the terms of the Educational Community License (ECL). In addition, the with an Outbound License which is approved by the Open Source Initiative. The whole compilation which the Apereo Foundation releases as the Sakai Collaboration and Learning Environment (CLE) is licensed under the terms of the ECL. It is important to understand, however, that many component parts of the Sakai software distributions retain their original copyright and licensing terms.
The Apereo Foundation believes that open-open licensing is fundamental to achieving the goals of the Sakai Community. The ECL is "open-open" because it permits unrestricted, use, modification, and distribution without a copyleft provision to require downstream modification to carry the same terms. The ECL is fundamental to achieving the goals of the Apereo Foundation Sakai project and supportive of collaborative development across both nonprofit and commercial organizations. The ECL was certified by the Open Source Initiative in 2005.
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To achieve these benefits for our community, Apereo desires that all contributors of code, documentation, or other items to the Sakai Project complete, sign, and submit an submit an Individual Contributor License Agreement (CLA). The purpose of this agreement is to clearly define the terms under which intellectual property has been contributed to the SF and thereby allow us to defend the project should there be a legal dispute regarding the software at some future time. A signed CLA is required to be on file before an individual is given commit rights to an SF project.
For a corporation that has assigned employees to work on the Sakai Project, a Corporate CLA (CCLA) is available for contributing intellectual property via the corporation that may have been assigned as part of an employment agreement. Note that a Corporate CLA does not remove the need for every developer to sign their own CLA as an individual, to cover their contributions that are not owned by the corporation signing the CLA.
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Follow the 3rd party evaluation process if you are considering using 3rd party code in work for the Apereo FoundationSakai project.