> On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 04:45:16PM -0500, Justin Wells wrote:
[snip]
> We has been discussing this recently with the FSF (though I'm not
> directly involved and I don't know the current status). The main issue
> at this point is that we do like the fact that our license prevents
> third parties from using the word "Apache" in the name of software based
> on it. This is (AFAIK) the reason RMS says that the ASL is incompatible
> with the GPL -- he says that restriction violates a portion of section 6
> of the GPL, in that it imposses additional restrictions.
>
> If there's some way to resolve this, though, we'll try to do so.
I don't know all the problem, but I was working in a project (AbiWord) which
is licensed with the GPL *and* nobody (besides the AbiWord team) can use the
word AbiWord in the name of software based on it (the company that started
the developement of AbiWord just trademarked "AbiWord", and thus it's up to
the company to decidy if a software can use the name "AbiWord").
My laws background is almost 0, and maybe (most probably) I just don't
understand your problem (if any), but maybe a similar solution may be
aceptable for both, the FSF and the ASF.
Cheers,
--
Joaquin Cuenca Abela
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