Hi, On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 14:50 -0800, Leo Simons wrote: > > That's interesting. I never thought of this. Given that GNU > > Classpath is able to modify the GPL with the exception, how about > > adding something that removes the "can't work with Apache License" > > problem? > > "As a special exception, for Classpath we have decided to make all the > problems described at > > http://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html > > go away." > > And then in proper lawyer terms. > > Heh. Very interesting, very pragmatic! Mark, do you think there's > any chance of making this happen?
Yes. In fact we believe we did that with the Exception we have now. It was not just meant for helping out the Apache community reuse GNU Classpath as is, but also other communities. Given that we don't have bugs in the exception text of course. Patches welcome :) But as long as the Apache license doesn't have a similar kind of exception we are still stuck not being able to accept pure ASLv2 code since some communities that depend on us do have GPL-compatible requirements. We want to help out all these communities. Cheers, Mark -- Escape the Java Trap with GNU Classpath! http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/java-trap.html Join the community at http://planet.classpath.org/
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