My 2 cents, As a committer on the most forked SOAP engine on the planet (Apache Axis - http://wiki.apache.org/ws/FrontPage/Axis/AxisBeingUsed)..i can safely say that this is why i keep working on Apache stuff, you never know where your code will turn up next. For example (http://www.hpsearch.org/documents/api/cgl/hpsearch/common/SOAPClient.html) and i like it that way.
thanks, dims On 12/4/05, Leo Simons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anthony, > > On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 11:03:44PM -0800, Anthony Green wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 07:16 -0800, Leo Simons wrote: > > > I didn't take notes but one of the many things I took away from this is > > > that it might > > > be a real good idea to try and see if classpath can be LGPLed; Mark > > > seemed to think > > > that is not an unattainable goal. When I get my hands on some spare time > > > (I hope it'll > > > be under the christmas tree) I hope to push forward om some of that. > > > > I don't understand this. > > I don't fully understand it either. > > > The GNU Classpath license was designed to be > > even more liberal than the LGPL. What makes relicensing GNU Classpath > > to LGPL a good idea? > > It looks like it might be a step on a path to having hundreds of developers > who > are part of the GNU community working with hundreds of developers who are part > of the ASF community. > > It looks like such a step a little more than the GPL+Exception license does. I > think that's primarily because the various legal properties of the LGPL are > apparently better understood (or liked) by a large variety of legal people > than > the GPL+Exception license. > > (...) > > I don't pretend to understand what drives most people who prefer "free > software" > to "open source" or the other way around. I have never cared very much about > copyleft > or copyright or "software freedoms". Can't get worked up about it. I care > about "real > life freedoms", such as "freedom of speech" or "freedom to have at least one > proper > meal a day". > > Anyway, the "freedom" I keep looking for is "the freedom to all work together > on cool > code without worrying about licensing". If lots of people are less worried > about the > LGPL than about other licenses, then that means the LGPL is, in my world > view, a nice > license. It would probably be best to try and make those worried people worry > less > about the GPL+Exception, but that seems like a very hard thing to do. > > I hope the above made sense... > > - LSD > > -- Davanum Srinivas : http://wso2.com/blogs/
