Am 2007-08-29 11:20, Diogo Santos schrieb: > FSF considers Apache License 2.0 a Free Software License. > I consider that Apache license (and others), can be used in Free Software. But > due too it's weaknesses, using Apache License to license the software, isn't > by > itself enough to consider the software under that license to be Free Software. > Maybe FSF sees it also this way, but calls it a Free Software licence, to > simplify. Does anyone from FSF wants to comment this? Is this it? > > I belive that althoug not intentional this is misleading. Maybe FSF should say > that Apache License (and other similar in that terms), maybe used to license > software copyrights, of Free Software, but isn't enough to consider it Free > Software. > i think it is not a specific problem about the apache license -- you could do the same thing even with gpl, i suppose. if you write a program on your own, you can distribute it under any license without any obligations firing back to you; these first take effect when you use foreign code. i think it is a general misunderstanding about free licenses.
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