Russell Nelson said on Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 05:12:21PM -0500,: > If nobody else reviews this license, then the license approval <snip> > comply with the OSD (cough, cough). But still, could somebody else > take a gander at this?
This license was discussed on [EMAIL PROTECTED], and I had seen quite a few regulars on this and debian-legal there; and in one mail, Eben Moglen of FSF wrote:- <quote> FSF notes that section 5 is the only element of ASL 2.0 that is incompatible with version 2 of the GNU General Public License. FSF continues to believe that the achievement of compatibility between ASL and GPL would be of enormous benefit to the community of free software developers, allowing merger of valuable code bases currently separated by license incompatibilities. FSF is pleased to note the convergence implied by the ASL 2.0 draft. FSF will make efforts, in the development, discussion, and adoption of GPL 3 to further the process of convergence, by carefully considering the Apache Foundation's approach to the patent defense problem. For this reason, we consider the distinction between the approaches contained in the first and second sentences of section 5 to be particularly significant. </quote> Sec. 5 referred to by Prof. Moglen was Sec 5 of the original draft as proposed by the Apache Foundation. This seems to have been renumbered as section 3 in the final license. Finally, on January 24th, Roy Fielding of the Apache Foundation stated on the same list:- <quote> They(*) are compatible. Whether or not they are considered compatible by the FSF is an opinion only they can make, but given that a derivative work consisting of both Apache Licensed code and GPL code can be distributed under the GPL (according to *our* opinion), there really isn't anything to be discussed. </quote> Guess that settles the matter. I am not on a `always on' network, so cannot search out the archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] for exact links to the above messages; the messages are archived by me though. (*) The ASL and GNU GPL. -- +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ Mahesh T. Pai, LL.M., 'NANDINI', S. R. M. Road, Ernakulam, Cochin-682018, Kerala, India. http://paivakil.port5.com +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3