Todd Berman wrote: >If I am writing a program under a non-GPL compat license (and this does >not mean commercial, there are plenty of popular OSI compat licenses >that are not GPL compat, like the Apache License for example). I can not >use a GPL library or application.
That interpretation seems to me to be at odds with what I read from the Apache Foundation: http://www.apache.org/foundation/licence-FAQ.html#GPL "It is the unofficial position of The Apache Software Foundation that the Apache license is compatible with the GPL. However, the Free Software Foundation holds a different position"... and a more in depth discussion: http://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html The issue seems to revolve around questions involving interaction between patent claims and copyrights that seem to be mostly moot. >Not to mention the issues of the patent-bomb >GPL/LGPL clause that prevents a GPL mp3 decoding library from ever being >distributed legally, That's an interesting concept I hadn't heard of before. Looking on google for "patent-bomb GPL turned up things like Mono and Microsoft and reference to a patent bomb in the Apache 1.1 license. ??? Looking for "mp3 GPL" turned up what looked to me like a long list of GPL MP3 players... --------------------------------------- Jim Self Systems Architect, Lead Developer VMTH Computer Services, UC Davis (http://www.vmth.ucdavis.edu/us/jaself) ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
