On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 12:46, Marc-André Moreau
<marcandre.mor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Going back to actual facts, the announcement of the license change
> corresponds with a sudden increase in interest towards the project.
> I have received a lot of highly positive feedback regarding the license
> change: companies involved in this field obviously prefer Apache over GPL,
> that's what I can tell. I'm not saying that Apache is always better than
> GPL, because in other cases it might not be the case, but for FreeRDP it
> *has* resulted in a significant change. The GPL chilling effect is not a
> unicorn, it is real, and it did chill a lot of people away from FreeRDP
> before we announced the license change. Oftentimes, companies will contact
> me directly to ask questions and to know how they could help the project,
> which is why it is not necessarily that visible on the mailing list yet.

The point here is not if it is good or not but if it is possible or
not to change license without Cendio's agreement. I think it is not.

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