On Friday, January 23, 2004, at 06:13 PM, Don Armstrong wrote:
Has Eben Moglen (or the FSF) commented on the compatibility with ASL
2.0 and the GPL, specifically regarding the interaction of �3 of the
ASL with �7 of the GPL? [I personally haven't seen such a public
commentary regarding the recent revisions of the license and their GPL
compatibility if they do exist...]
Yes, though I don't think it was public.
Until he (or the FSF) has, calling the ASL 2.0 a GPL compatible
license is premature for the reasons outlined in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> as well as in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, I'd suggest avoiding
caracterizing it as such until he (or the FSF) makes some sort of
statement on the issue.
They are compatible. Whether or not they are considered compatible
by the FSF is an opinion only they can make, but given that a
derivative work consisting of both Apache Licensed code and GPL
code can be distributed under the GPL (according to *our* opinion),
there really isn't anything to be discussed.
Cheers,
Roy T. Fielding, co-founder, The Apache Software Foundation
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.apache.org/>
