From: "David N. Welton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 5:48 AM
> "William A. Rowe, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > This sounds like an interesting project. Understand that the ASF > > does not endorse or adopt any project development under the GNU > > regime, simply because it interferes with commercial distribution, > > which the ASF actively encourages. > > To be precise, and a bit picky, the GNU license does not interfere > directly with commercial distribution (see Redhat for example), it > interferes with proprietary distribution. Of course, a lot of > commercial distributions want to be proprietary, and the GNU license > does hinder that, whereas the Apache license does not. In fairness, you are 100% correct. However, this wasn't meant to start a license flame war. Can we please move that aspect of this discussion back to members@, if anyone wants to follow up, and leave apache-docs to hack on their interests, whether they are ASF non-GNU or external GNU projects, please? Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
