On Wednesday 19 January 2005 01:42, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> > > MX4J uses the Apache Software License, which, IIRC, �is
> > > incompatible with the Classpath license.
> >
> > No its not incompatible with the Classpath license, its
> > incompatible with pure GPL.
>
> Which is indeed a problem because that means we cannot include these
> together with GNU Classpath (as external packages) or recommend them
> to people to build larger works on (since those would then also be
> GPL incompatible).

According to one interpretation of the Apache licence its legal to fork 
the code and re-license it under GPL.

-- 
Thomas Zander

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