This wiki page tracks the use of non O-RAN SC charter open source licenses, such as BSD, MIT, etc.  

Background

Because O-RAN open source project charters specify Apache 2 and O-RAN Software v1 licenses, all code developed by the open source community under the O-RAN SC and O-RAN SCP projects must be under one of these two licenses.  

However, there are cases where code originated from external sources, or automatically generated by code compilers/generators, need to be hosted under our repositories.  In these cases, we ask the developers to

1. separate such injected code from O-RAN open source community developed code, in different subdirectories;
2. maintain the original foreign license claims of the injected code as such licenses generally require so;
3. based on Linux Foundation's legal advice, such uses must be documented and approved by the ToC.

This wiki page tracks such uses and their ToC approvals.

Please note that all foreign licenses appear here are considered open source friendly.  They are not consider "copy left", neither the inclusion/use of code under these foreign licenses would compromise the O-RAN SC and O-RAN SCP licenses for code developed here.  In other words, it is generally recognized as safe for including such foreign license code in our repositories.  For more information about these licenses and their applicabilities in open source please see https://opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical, where the owner of the web site, the Open Source Initiative, is the "community-recognized body for reviewing and approving licenses as Open Source Definition -conformant".

(Note:  FSFAP license is not currently listed on the OSI web site.  It is an all permissive license originated by the Free Software Foundation.  Linux Foundation advisory on FSFAP shows that it is safe to use for open source projects.)

Request to Approve

ToC Approved