On Sun, 31 Mar 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > GNU Public License and am writing to ask for permission and advice. > (I am not a lawyer and the gnu.org website indicates that the Apache > Software License v1.1 is not compatible with the GPL, but does not > give specific reasons.)
The incompatibility is uni-directional. Code that's licensed under the Apache license cannot *contain* code licensed GPL because then the entire program would become GPL (the GPL is *more* restrictive than the Apache license). But the other direction is perfectly fine. If you read the Apache license carefully, you'll see that it allows you to license derivative works under whatever license you like (including a closed-source one), as long as you follow the terms of the license. I can't personally give you any "official permission", only the Board can do that. But what I'm saying is that as long as you follow the terms of the license, you shouldn't need any special permission. --Cliff -------------------------------------------------------------- Cliff Woolley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Charlottesville, VA
