Anthony, Am sure you are aware that Apache does not get contributors to assign copyrights to Apache when they contribute code.
-- dims On 11/18/05, Anthony Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 14:50 -0800, Leo Simons wrote: > > "As a special exception, for Classpath we have decided to make all the > > problems described at > > > > http://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html > > > > go away." > > > > And then in proper lawyer terms. > > > > Heh. Very interesting, very pragmatic! Mark, do you think there's > > any chance of making this happen? > > IANAL, but my understanding is that there are two ways to make "all the > problems" go away: > a) Modify the Apache license to remove the "additional restrictions", or > b) Modify the GPL to remove the "additional restrictions" requirement. > > Only the copyright holders of the Apache licensed code can do (a), which > doesn't seem to be what you're proposing. > > As for (b), this would effectively make GNU Classpath incompatible with > GPL licensed code, because we still have Apache's "additional > restrictions" to worry about. This is a non-starter for a GNU project. > > I like the creative thinking though. > > AG > > > -- Davanum Srinivas : http://wso2.com/blogs/
