Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> writes: > Le Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 09:15:54PM -0430, Miguel Landaeta a écrit :
>> Upstream clarify this in her website >> (http://cobertura.sourceforge.net/license.html ): >> Because ant tasks are loaded directly into the runtime of ant, and the >> GPL is incompatable with all versions of the Apache Software License, >> ant tasks can not be licensed under the GPL. > this information is outdated as the GPL version 3 is compatible with the > Apache License version 2.0, see: > http://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html I believe that FAQ explicitly supports the statement Miguel posts above. Apache 2 software can therefore be included in GPLv3 projects, because the GPLv3 license accepts our software into GPLv3 works. However, GPLv3 software cannot be included in Apache projects. The licenses are incompatible in one direction only, and it is a result of ASF's licensing philosophy and the GPLv3 authors' interpretation of copyright law. This licensing incompatibility applies *only* when some Apache project software becomes a derivative work of some GPLv3 software, because then the Apache software would have to be distributed under GPLv3. This would be incompatible with ASF's requirement that all Apache software must be distributed under the Apache License 2.0. We avoid GPLv3 software because merely linking to it is considered by the GPLv3 authors to create a derivative work. We want to honor their license. Unless GPLv3 licensors relax this interpretation of their own license regarding linking, our licensing philosophies are fundamentally incompatible. This is an identical issue for both GPLv2 and GPLv3. This is exactly the situation that Miguel is concerned about. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-java-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
