> > > From: "Greg Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > It would actually be quite interesting to see APR ported to build against > > > > STM and see what happens when the threaded MPM is thrown against APR/STM. > > > > > > Could this be taken even further and merge APR and NSPR into a single > > > run-time library? There is already a lot of overlap between APR/NSPR and > > > these two projects have similar goals. Developers working on the NSPR have > > > expressed interest in merging with APR several times in the past. > > I have never heard that interest, but if it is true, then yes I believe > there is an opportunity there. The biggest problem we will have, is that > I don't believe the APR code will ever move from a BSD-ish license. The > Apache group in general, and a lot of the APR programmers in specific, > like the BSD-ish licenses, and would be very unlikely to change. > > Technically, there are few if any reasons not to merge the two > libraries. If anybody from NSPR is listening, let's talk about this. I > think we are all willing and able to do what is required to make this > happen
The change that would need to happen is for NSPR to be relicensed under a BSD/Apache style license. That would be most cool. Bill
