On 08/31/2012 02:38 PM, Liviu Nicoara wrote:
My input below.
On 08/31/12 09:42, Wojciech Meyer wrote:
The two significant ones (as far as I can understand):
- as I heard from Christopher Bergström that it's hard to push the
stdcxx to FreeBSD ports repository (I can understand it and that
sounds pretty bad, if that's the case then the board should consider
re-licensing as advised; I agree in general it's a hard decision for
the board, but imagine the project would benefit, IANAL tho)
Christopher's wishes and goals may be different from others'. I do not
believe he has ulterior motives that would be detrimental to the rest of
us but AFAICT he has not made a compelling argument. Even with one, it
stretches the imagination what could possibly convince Apache to give up
on STDCXX ownership.
Just a point of clarity: the ASF doesn't "own" stdcxx. They license
it from Rogue Wave which still has the copyright. (Not that anyone
there realizes it or would know what to do with it if they did.)
IIUC, that's also why they can't relicense it under different terms.
Martin
