Hi, At 12:22 26/9/00 -0700, you wrote: >One thing I noticed on all this discussion is the fact that the FSF has all >this pages advising people on the use of their licensing model and to avoid >licensing using ASF. On the other hand I have not seen any pointers to >similar analysis on apache.org telling our side of the story and telling the >advantages of ASF style licenses in particular with Java. > >I can understand why misinformed people will finish using GLP, because they >go and read around and nothing is telling them what they loose with GLP or >gain with ASF. > >I think every jakarta/apache project should have in their home page a >pointer on "how to create OSS projects that use this work" in which we >explin to people to use ASF (or to not use GLP unless you understand you are >limiting who can use your stuff).
This is a great idea !! I am forwarding it to the people who I know sit on PMC they should be in a position to examine the exact consequences of choices etc. They are also in best position to get such a move going. >And we should also explain that LGPL is useless for java projects. I believe the GNU project (or FSF in particular) has already documented this somewhere. Thou we should probably link to it. Cheers, Pete *------------------------------------------------------* | "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want | | to test a man's character, give him power." | | -Abraham Lincoln | *------------------------------------------------------*
