Re: ASL vs. GPL page?

2002-03-06 Thread Gunnar Rønning
* Andrew C. Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | Order...but that's about the extent of it ;-). Putting the page up | would of course excite RMS people into a frenzy, but who cares (I have | mail filters). If people want the info, let em have it. It doesn't need to be a bashing of the GPL. It

Re: ASL vs. GPL page?

2002-03-05 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
Send in a patch or write one it seems like you've researched the issue beyond *it sucks*. On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 06:16, Jeff Turner wrote: Hi, Is there a page somewhere at apache.org, explaining why anyone would want to switch from GPL to ASL? The GNU.org site paints a very inspiring picture

Re: ASL vs. GPL page?

2002-03-05 Thread Pier Fumagalli
Andrew C. Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You must realize that there are different objectives. It is the goal of GNU to get all software to use the GPL. It is not a goal of Apache to get all software covered by the APL. We're programmers, not lawyers. That's why I wouldn't be that

Re: ASL vs. GPL page?

2002-03-05 Thread javajoe2975
: Pier Fumagalli [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jakarta General List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 7:39 AM Subject: Re: ASL vs. GPL page? Andrew C. Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You must realize that there are different objectives. It is the goal of GNU to get all software to use

RE: ASL vs. GPL page?

2002-03-05 Thread Danny Angus
Pier wrote: That's why I wouldn't be that comfortable with a Why GPL sucks page... Political propaganda? Looks really like it... And IMO that's not what we're here to do... We're here to write software... +1 IMO The licence is there to empower us, its not a product, its a by-product of the

Re: ASL vs. GPL page?

2002-03-05 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 07:39, Pier Fumagalli wrote: Andrew C. Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You must realize that there are different objectives. It is the goal of GNU to get all software to use the GPL. It is not a goal of Apache to get all software covered by the APL. We're

Re: ASL vs. GPL page?

2002-03-05 Thread Pier Fumagalli
Danny Angus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And anyway aren't licence issues beyond the remit of Jakarta? Practically anyone has a word on the matter, as members are listening, but the legal decision (and legal obligations, bindings, restrictions, yadayadayada) are a privilege of members of the

Re: ASL vs. GPL page?

2002-03-05 Thread Pier Fumagalli
Andrew C. Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 07:39, Pier Fumagalli wrote: Andrew C. Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You must realize that there are different objectives. It is the goal of GNU to get all software to use the GPL. It is not a goal of Apache to get all

Re: ASL vs. GPL page?

2002-03-05 Thread dirkx
On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Pier Fumagalli wrote: Danny Angus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And anyway aren't licence issues beyond the remit of Jakarta? Practically anyone has a word on the matter, as members are listening, but the legal decision (and legal obligations, bindings, restrictions,

Re: Re: ASL vs. GPL page?

2002-03-05 Thread acoliver
On Tue, 05 Mar 2002 14:09:23 Pier Fumagalli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote. Andrew C. Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A lot of what we think and why is on the web already... It's in the mail archives, in the presentations to different conferences, and so on... The word is out there, you just need

Re: ASL vs. GPL page?

2002-03-05 Thread Joseph Dane
Jeff == Jeff Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jeff Here's a starting resource: Jeff http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a//policy/2001/12/12/transition.html this link produced a (ouch) 500 response from oreilly. I was able to find another link that worked: