Hello, EPL is very close to Apache license. Why not to go a bit further an apply for Apache incubation [1]?
1. This would give us a popular brand, which would make distributing openmeetings and fostering our community of developers a bit easier. 2. This would ease next yera GSoC participation much. 3. Eclipse community is quite centered on IBM business, while Apache is more balanced (getting money from several moneybags). 4. GSoC admins in Apache might recall me since I wrote more than several letters during GSoC, so we have a chance to get a champion. 5. For Sebastian Apache participation also would mean submitting the proposal [1] and writing monthly reports to Apache board. BTW, Apache has a European svn mirror. [1] http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OpenmeetingsProposal Sorry for not listing all names, openmeetings committers are welcome to edit and add their names - the page is free to modify. On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Sebastian Wagner <[email protected]> wrote: > hi, > > to bring OpenMeetings in line with the License of OpenLaszlo we will switch > from the LGPL to the EPL with the next release. > > What does that mean for you? > - Nothing actually. > > Eclipse Public License is even a bit more liberal then (L)GPL > > Quote from wikkipedia > > The Eclipse Public License is designed to be a business friendly free > software license, and features weaker copyleft provisions than contemporary > licenses such as the GNU General Public License (GPL). The receiver of > EPL-licensed programs can use, modify, copy and distribute the work and > modified versions, in some cases being obligated to release their own > changes.[2] > > The EPL is approved by the Open Source Initiative (OSI)[3] and the Free > Software Foundation (FSF)[4]. > > see also: > http://wagner-sebastian.com/wordpress/2009/10/12/openmeetings-becomes-even-more-liberal-with-epl-license/ > > sebastian > > > -- > Sebastian Wagner > http://www.webbase-design.de > http://openmeetings.googlecode.com > http://www.laszlo-forum.de > [email protected] > > > > -- With best regards / с наилучшими пожеланиями, Alexei Fedotov / Алексей Федотов, http://www.telecom-express.ru/ http://harmony.apache.org/ http://www.expressaas.com/ http://openmeetings.googlecode.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OpenMeetings developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/openmeetings-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
