On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 13:46, Sam Ruby wrote: > > MySQL have indicated to me that they do intend to provide (or > > consider providing) specific less restrictive licences to certain > > groups, and that jakarta would likely be one, but I haven't heard any > > more, and until then the last release of the mm.mysql under LGPL is > > the only one we can use. If MySQL did contact me regarding a specific > > Apache licence I would, of course, pass this on as even a specific > > licence for Apache may not accord with either the ASFL or > > distribution of the driver by our mirrors. FWIW I believe that I > > summarised this on general@jakarta at the time, but perhaps not. > > The net affect of such a license would be that people who receive the > software from us would have significantly less restrictions placed on > what they could do with it than if they received these same bytes from > the original source.
This is not necessarily true. The most likely scenario is that the exception is just made for apache, not for people using apache, that wish to customize that part it is concerning (unless they contribute back of course..). Mvgr, Martin --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
