The difference between LGPL and Apache license is purely from political perspective. IIRC, LGPL would not prevent anyone from forking the code (GPL might do?). Conflicts arise from different view of free software between FSF and Apache. This is a subject of constant falme wars on the mailing lists :-).
Andrus Jack Park writes: > I'm inclined to think that LGPL might be akin to Apache, but with one > additional clause, one dealing with patents. There seems to be a trend > towards including a clause in licenses that says, in effect: > "Your rights to use of software covered by this license is > terminated the moment you file a lawsuit over patent rights which apply to > software you have developed and patented..." > > I'm not sure that's what the LGPL patent clause says, but clauses like > that are starting to appear in OSI approved licenses. > > Jack > > At 02:42 PM 10/16/2002 +0000, Andrus Adamchik wrote: >> To raise the chances of getting through, I suggest you'd address >> licensing issues. LGPL that Tapestry uses is a minimum acceptable license >> by Jakarta. But there are many people there who are suspicious of any >> kind of *GPL and make a big point out of it. I guess a sentence about >> switching to Apache license (which to me is just rephrased LGPL :-)), may >> help. >> Andrus > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > - > XML Topic Maps: Creating and Using Topic Maps for the Web. > Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-74960-2. > > http://www.nexist.org/wiki/User0Blog > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by: viaVerio will pay you up to > $1,000 for every account that you consolidate with us. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;4749864;7604308;v? > http://www.viaverio.com/consolidator/osdn.cfm > _______________________________________________ > Tapestry-developer mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tapestry-developer ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: viaVerio will pay you up to $1,000 for every account that you consolidate with us. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;4749864;7604308;v? http://www.viaverio.com/consolidator/osdn.cfm _______________________________________________ Tapestry-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tapestry-developer
