FSF: New Apache License not GPL-Compatible 405
__past__ continues "The new version of the Apache license will apply to all Apache projects, including the popular web server and many Java libraries like Xerces and Log4J, and making it easier to integrate Apache- and GNU-licensed code was one of the primary goals for its development. With the new license being GPL-incompatible (just like the older Apache licenses were), it is not possible to distribute programs that use libraries covered by under it and others covered by the GPL.
Apparently, the FSF does not actually consider the patent-related clauses a bad idea, let alone non-free - it is just that they impose a restriction that the GPL does not, and that makes the license automatically incompatible. It might even be that GPL Version 3 will include similar statements or at least allow them, as a message from FSF legal counsel Eben Moglen indicates. Additionally, prominent Apache hacker Roy Fielding claims that it doesn't really matter what the FSF thinks about the matter, because according to the Apache Software Foundation, derived works can just be distributed under the GPL."
gpl like religion ? (Score:4, Funny)
GPL non-GPL compliant? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:gpl like religion ? (Score:4, Funny)
For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the license of this code, If any man shall add unto these things, RMS shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this license.
And if any man shall take away from the words of the license of this code, RMS shall take away his part out of the license to this code, and out of the open bazaar, and from the things which are written in this license.
Motivation? (Score:4, Funny)
So to those people "in the know" or those with a pretty good idea, I ask you what is the motivation for these two (XF86 and Apache) free software icons to shift away to GPL-incompatible licenses?
I'm not even going to jump to "Microsoft conspiracy theory" though the timing is pretty interesting...
What if Stallman bitched about licensing (Score:5, Funny)
Is this the beginning of market forces affecting the open source movement? Practical realities asserting themselves over floating abstractions?
Hey, take it easy. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Who knows (Score:4, Funny)
Why did you bother to use periods?
Re:gpl like religion ? (Score:3, Funny)
DDOS the heretic!
Cast him into the flames of Redmond!
Unrealistic example (Score:5, Funny)
(Quoted from Eben's message)
As if that would ever happen ... what did you say? Darl Mc-who?
Re:Who knows (Score:5, Funny)
Re:gpl like religion ? (Score:2, Funny)
"There is no license but GPL, and RMS is it's prohet"
Re:Is anyone else getting worried here? (Score:3, Funny)