On Nov 14, 2005, at 1:44 AM, Neil Macneale wrote:
Mark Wielaard wrote:
Hi Leo,
On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 05:38 -0800, Leo Simons wrote:
I keep getting lost in the licensing discussions. I *think* the
below accurately
represents where we are right now.
Thanks for writing this down. I'll try to clarify some things
below. There is one nitpick with the whole setup though. It really
reads as if
harmony is just an ordinary Apache project. While when we started
it we
want it to be something that is a much larger cooperative effort
between
various different individuals, organizations and projects with
similar
goals but completely different backgrounds. Presenting harmony as
just
an Apache project doesn't do justice to it. And I feel it will
fail if
we do that. There are a lot of people working on all the sister
projects
who we currently are not giving the feeling they are part of our
harmony
collaboration. This is not something specific to your email though. I
often get the feeling that people on this list act as if Apache is
the
be all, end all for harmony and getting to a free software
replacement
for the proprietary non-free j2se implementations. And that does push
away a lot of people who have been working on all this for years
without
any Apache involvement at all. I personally feel that way at times
reading some of the discussions. Lets try to be a little more
inclusive
and get the support of those hundreds of people working already on
the
same goal, but who don't currently feel part of harmony.
This may be some what off topic, but I'm going to ask anyway...
I am not clear what it is about the GPL which does not allow
someone to package it up and distribute it for use with non-GPL code.
Well, it's not non-GPL code per se, but rather code under licenses
that aren't compatible with the GPL.
The problem is that many licenses are incompatible. You cannot
combine code under the Apache License and code under the GPL and
(according to the FSF) conform to the terms of the GPL. Because we
believe in respecting license terms, we're stuck.
geir
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