[Developers] Acre hosted app licensing - BSD only?

[Kirrily Robert]

On 02/07/2009, at 7:57 AM, Tom Morris wrote:
> There are a number of references to all Acre code being BSD licensed
> which make it sound like it's mandatory, not just a suggested or
> default thing (and something that all Metaweb staff does), but I
> haven't been able to find any place where this is actually mentioned
> in a legal (or even semi-legal) agreement.  Is there a separate
> license for freebaseapps.com or have the lawyers said that since the
> source code gets stored in the graph and graph is CC-BY licensed that
> the equivalent software license is BSD?
>
> Similarly, there's a mention in one of the FAQs (don't have the
> reference at hand at the moment) about Acre hosting being restricted
> to apps which access Freebase.com as stated in the TOS, but I can't
> find a ToS agreement anywhere, let alone one which says that.  As an
> aside, it would be great to have all such references linked directly
> to the relevant page.


This Freebase TOS is currently being updated with both these points!   
But to confirm: yes, the BSD licensing is mandatory, because otherwise  
we couldn't implement "Clone", and yes, Freebase-related-apps only;  
Acre isn't a general app hosting site, it's a *Freebase* app hosting  
site.

K.

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Kirrily Robert
Freebase Community Director
kirrily at metaweb.com