I am a developer on the ELMAH project and recently I was browsing the stack-exchange-data-explorer project on Google Code. And I noticed too many similarities between SimpleErrorHandler and ELMAH to be a coincidence. Normally this wouldn't be a problem, but there is no mention of the Apache license 2.0 which ELMAH is licensed under or attribution given to ELMAH.
As a developer I understand that this more often occurs because of trying to get a job done, than trying to figure out lawyer mumbo-jumbo. And often when creating code, you don't really think about licenses until the end of the project.
However, I feel obligated to mention that SimpleErrorHandler definitly falls under the Derivative Works clause:
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Obviously both are open source, but the Apache license 2.0 cannot be changed to a MIT license. To redistribute the work that the ELMAH team has done please follow the redistribution clause under the license.
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Knowing how committed to Open Source the StackOverflow team is, I am 100% positive this was an oversight on your part. And I hope we can work together to get the code licensed correctly under the Apache license 2.0.
Since a couple of examples are probably warranted here are a few that I picked out.
