Jon Stevens wrote:
>
> on 7/18/2000 12:54 PM, "Diethelm Guallar, Gonzalo"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > If Justin accepts any input, may I suggest the Apache license?
>
> Gee. Good suggestion. :-) I never thought of that! :-)
>
> No really, a bit of history (I'm not sure if all this should be public, but
> in reality it probably should be just for history sake. correct me if i'm
> wrong with anything.):
>
> Myself and others have been acting behind the scenes with Justin for MONTHS
> now trying to get him to change the license to either BSD or MPL. I even
> offered to pay him out of my own pocket to purchase a BSD license from him
> (Collab.Net has also offered).
>
> At his request, we started to work with him on a new license (the SPL) until
> we realized (recently) that the ASF will never agree to his new license
> because of the legal issues and time involved with a new license. The board
> simply doesn't have the time to play license games it isn't interested in
> (since people of the ASF are already pretty convinced of the "right" license
> for things, helping make up a new one is a very low priority). I agree with
> this.
>
> At this point, Justin has been given a list of licenses that the ASF will
> agree to: MPL 1.1 or BSD/ASF and a final ultimatum to choose one quickly or
> we (Collab.Net) would pay someone to clean room re-implement things from
> scratch.
What would that mean for Turbine/webmacro? I am currently writing my
app using webmacro and want to release in a couple months. If Justin
sticks with his SPL, does that mean that turbine would drop webmacro?
Sorry for all the questions on the webmacro license I just want to make
sure when I release my app I dont put myself in a hole;-)
Thanks,
John
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