Please note that joining the Logging Services project would necessarily mean changing your existing license to the Apache Software License.
I know licences like GPL and LGPL have been said to be "viral", but isn't Apache being a bit viral? The Apache point of view says "join us or go away". It compels other projects to join if they want to participate at all. I would think the ideal license would recognize that this is all open source and be welcoming of lot of different projects, not just those belonging to one organization. I'm sure there are lots of details dealing with licensing that I'm missing, but the whole open source "my license is better than yours" infighting is getting tiresome. Seriously, can't people just figure out that the whole idea of an open source license serves, essentially, two purposes?:
1. Protect the developers from liability. 2. Protect the source from being stolen and patented by evil corporations.
That's pretty much it. The goal is to foster an environment where code can be written and shared for the common good without worry.
Note that a non-goal is:
3. Make sure we discriminate against all other open source projects that don't conform to our very explicit and strict rules.
Apache seems to serve all three purposes when it should only be serving the first two.
Thoughts?
Jake
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