Neither LGPL nor Apache prevent forking the code. The difference is,
with LGPL if you fork the code you have to contribute back your
changes. So if you want to start a business based on an LGPL project,
you'll have a hard time making money because any enhancements you
make become public. But redhat etc. basically started under this
model; they make money off the convenience of packaging the stuff,
but there's nothing to stop, say, Mandrake from reusing all of RedHat's
stuff.
If you start a business based on enhancing an
apache project, your enhancements can remain proprietary so you have
more hope of making money. Because there is some hope of making
money, there's more incentive for forks to appear. It's still
rare though (I think).
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrus Adamchik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 11:33 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Tapestry-developer] Re: Proposal: Tapestry joins Jakarta
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
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