On Jun 7, 2011, at 11:51 PM, Norbert Thiebaud wrote: > On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Noel J. Bergman <n...@devtech.com> wrote: > > [...] their downstream code cannot be used. Hence, the best outcome > under the current licensing regime is for all core development to be > done here, and for TDF to be a downstream consumer. > > Just because you choose a particular license that does not make you > de-facto 'upstream'.
Water flows downstream because gravity "pulls" things down and so water takes the path of least resistance in that direction. The path of least resistance in code in from an AL-type license to a GPL-type one... the reverse is not. If your upstream is AL, your feeds can be AL, LGPL, GPL, etc... If your upstream is GPL, your downstream can only be GPL (you have access to much fewer feeds). --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
