-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 28 March 2004 18:41, you wrote: > > Is the Apache licence considered Free for you guys (I'm really an open > > source programmer, not a free-software one..). > > Yes, it certainly is a Free Software license. > But it is currently not compatible with the GPL. > ... we don't really recommend > releasing and/or combining larger works under the Apache license. For my puposes the GPL is too viral. Java is quickly becoming the choice of big companies for their apps; and GPL is almost never a correct licence for code from companies. LGPL would be, if it would be fixed by the FSF to be 'compatible' with Java..
> So creating a derived larger work of some GPLed and Apache licensed code > is not distributable (since there are some restrictions with respect to > patent licensing that are not allowed by the GPL). I should have been more correct in my wording; I use the Apache licence version 1; I refuse to use version 2. Version 1 does not discuss patent licensing. - -- Regards Thomas -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAaTEoCojCW6H2z/QRAjlSAKDiLnyri5uKzW24kqI6d5vSZJt6gQCfbUbT 83+ymZFdOHLjf8NYdJKyO04= =KnJy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
