On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 8:43 AM, "C. Bergström" <cbergst...@pathscale.com> wrote: > On 08/31/12 07:20 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: >> >> On Aug 30, 2012, at 8:00 PM, C. Bergström<cbergst...@pathscale.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> While STDCXX is at Apache it will never be BSD licensed. Solution - move >>> it away from Apache foundation and have them transfer some of the additional >>> rights they received to allow recipient foundation to relicense. I thought >>> this would be a win for the project and everyone, but for some reason >>> instead of opening a discussion to transfer - it's just death grip and >>> pushing to the attic. >> >> What is wrong with ALv2? > > Armchair lawyer discussion on this will never end and I'll try to keep this > brief.. > > Apache lawyer views, our lawyer views, your views.. etc (not the problem > here) > > FSF views which probably have some weight across the open source community > is summed up with this.. > "Despite our best efforts, the FSF has never considered the Apache License > to be compatible with GPL version 2" > http://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html > > That view seems to have been accepted by the FBSD community - The effect is > that the large amount of GPLv2 code in ports/elsewhere can't take advantage > of STDCXX due to it's license. Please note I'm not arguing if this is > "correct", but just the feedback I've gotten. I'm not interested to fight > that. > > Open source works like this in my experience : people use it, they love it > and they contribute back. To get users we need to solve problems for larger > communities - Make sense? > > Can you help clear this roadblock, yes or no? >
My 0.02 of observations about FOSS licenses in general, based on my direct experience: For any FOSS component M, licensed under an Open Source License N, there will always exist a person P, or a group of persons G[P] who will declare that the current license N is inappropriate/invalid/incompatible/etc, and will advocate a change to another Open Source License Q. --Stefan -- Stefan Teleman KDE e.V. stefan.tele...@gmail.com
