On 07/27/2012 11:09 AM, Adrian Custer wrote: > > Third, the decision strikes me as between honoring the intent of > contributors to Geotools 2.6 and honoring the desire of the Geotoolkit > contributors to take forwards their code base and build a community > after having been rejected by OSGeo. Personally, it feels wrong to have > all of Geotools 2.6 relicensed from a *GPL style license to an APL or > similarly permissive license. My personal motivations are very different > in those two different environments. However, it also feels wrong to > impose my strong personal preference in a way that blocks the progress > of others since I want free software exactly so that others have the > freedom to leverage my work. This is especially true given that the core > code base of the two projects was overwhelmingly Martin's work, and that > the new code base has diverged enormously from the time of the fork. >
What licenses does the Apache Foundation accept for projects that join it? Basically I'm wondering, is it a requirement to relicense in order to join Apache? If so, which licenses are the options? Thanks, Alex _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
