Thanks for the explanation :)

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Jörn Kottmann <kottm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/18/10 5:57 PM, Mohammad Nour El-Din wrote:
>>
>> +1 (non-binding)
>>
>> I have only one question, on SF web-site it has been mentioned that
>> the software is licensed under both ASL and GPL/LGPL, Joern would you
>> please explain that :) ?
>
> OpenNLP and Maxent started their live at sourceforge
> under the LGPL license, quite a while later we noticed
> that this makes it difficult for Apache projects to use
> OpenNLP. We changed the license to AL 2.0 and
> removed all LGPL licensed dependencies.
>
> The old versions are still licensed under LGPL and
> the new versions are licensed under AL 2.0.
>
> Jörn
>
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