It is interesting to notice that a BSD license would "nearly disappear" too: The BSD license has the same properties as the Apache license in this situation.
Christophe > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Jagielski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 2:36 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [ObjectWeb architecture] Re: ObjectWeb (was Re: ASM > looks cool > but LGPL) > > > On Wednesday, September 3, 2003, at 03:26 AM, Brian Behlendorf wrote: > > > > >> Thus, you can see that any License that restricts the freedom > >> associated > >> with the user conflicts with the Apache License. > > > > To clarify - if you take A (Apache-licensed) and B > (licensed under any > > other license) and combine them into AB, you must follow > the terms of > > both > > licenses when distributing the combined work. Thus, the "derived" > > license > > - the superset of terms in the licenses of A and B - is > what matters. > > The Apache license is designed to nearly disappear in the > case of "AB", > > since its requirements are so easy to satisfy. > > > > > > Yes, this is an important clarification to make! Certainly > my snippet could have been misread. I was speaking not of > the combination of licenses, but the overall comparison > of licenses. > > >
