At 06:04 4/11/00 -0000, you wrote:
>| FYI, on this page (below), GNU specifically states that the APL
>| 1.1 license
>| is NOT compatible with the GPL license. So, Marc, whatever arguments that
>| you are trying to make about being able to work with the APL and the GPL
>| combined, you are wrong. It is clear that these two licenses cannot have
>| their source code together in any shape or form without
>| potentially risking
>| the wrath of RMS or lawyers. It just isn't worth it to me to risk whatever
>| project I am working on on trying to work with GPL'd software.
>|
>| <http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html>
>|
>
>The reason is that APL 1.1 insists that documentation and or programs must
>include an acknowledgement to the Apache foundation pretty much like the old
>BSD license.
No it is not. The reason is clause 5 not acknowledgement (old bsd had
advertising not acknowledgement clause), APL is based on newer BSD which is
fine.
>It has no effect on what we are trying to do here.
except that they are incompatable ....
Cheers,
Pete
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