After the XFree86 4.4 saga, another license disagreement is brewing. This time between the FSF and the apache Software foundation, over teh compatibility of Apache license and GPL. This might have ramifications over Debians packaging of Apache software.

- Sandip

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http://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility

A lot of noise has been made recently about this brief comment that was placed on the Free Software Foundation's license comments page on 18 Feb 2004:

The Apache Software License, version 2.0
This is a free software license but it is incompatible with the GPL. The Apache Software License is incompatible with the GPL because it has a specific requirement that is not in the GPL: it has certain patent termination cases that the GPL does not require. (We don't think those patent termination cases are inherently a bad idea, but nonetheless they are incompatible with the GNU GPL.)


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