jARIA license

[Colin Clark]

Hi all,

Let me see if I can help clarify the situation a little bit.

On 5-Mar-08, at 1:23 PM, Chris Hoffman wrote:
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> 1) The Fluid project uses the jQuery JavaScript library, which is
> dual-licensed GPL and MIT (X-11, it looks like).

Yes, jQuery is dual-licensed as GPL and MIT, which is great. This  
choice of licenses is one of the reason Fluid and its collaborating  
communities like jQuery so much, in addition to its great technology.

> 2) Fluid is licensed under GPL.

Fluid is *not* licensed under GPL. We're dual licensed as ECL 2 and  
BSD. This gives our users a wide range of choices.

http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Fluid+Licensing

Fluid has developed some new, self-contained plugins for jQuery  
accessibility. We hope this code will be widely embraced by the jQuery  
community, so we've chosen to license this particular code under the  
same approach as jQuery: GPL/MIT. All other code is ECL/BSD.

> 3) jAria is a plugin for the jQuery library that is licensed (perhaps
> mistakenly) under the Lesser GPL.

Fluid would like to use jARIA within Fluid components. I also think  
the larger jQuery community will be interested to use jARIA as well.  
For both reasons, we're hoping you (Chris H.) might be interested in  
changing jARIA's license to GPL/MIT.

> The question is, in order to be used by the Fluid project, does the
> jAria plugin need to be changed to the GPL/MIT dual license?

I think there's a larger question here. If the burgeoning jQuery  
accessibility movement ends up choosing to integrate or adapt jARIA  
and include it into jQuery UI, are you amenable to this, Chris H.? If  
so, it seems like it may simplify things to bring the license in line  
with jQuery's license.

Hope this helps clarify,

Colin

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Colin Clark
Technical Lead, Fluid Project
Adaptive Technology Resource Centre, University of Toronto
http://fluidproject.org