As an ASF project? It's not going to happen. On Sep 4, 2012, at 12:04 PM, Martin Sebor <mse...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 09/02/2012 08:42 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: >> >> On Sep 2, 2012, at 12:02 AM, Martin Sebor<mse...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> 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. >>> >> >> FWIW, the ASF never requires copyright assignment... Just a copyright >> license to "reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, >> publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute Your Contributions and >> such derivative works." >> >> Also, there is nothing in our bylaws or in the various license >> agreements that *exclude* the ASF ever releasing code not under >> the ALv2 (how could it? After all, that would prevent us from >> ever being able to move to ALv3). Again, we could, if we wanted >> to (which we never will, btw) actually make our code under the >> GPLv2... > > So what would it take to change the license to BSD as Christopher > asks (IIUC)? > > Martin >
