On May 7, 2005, at 12:38 PM, Paul Hammant wrote:
Unless I am mistaken, Apache licensed code will never be able to
'legally' import GPL code.
You are mistaken -- the copyright owner can do whatever they want,
as can users. It is only redistributors that are constrained on
how they can combine and redistribute.
The logic behind this -
GPL code can can import BSD, MIT, X11, W3C (etc) code but cannot
currently Apache licensed. That may well be worked out with an
revision to the Apache Software License 2.0.
It is only an opinion of the FSF. It makes no difference to anyone
else and certainly isn't based on law.
BSD (etc) is not currently able to import GPL licensed code.
Sure it is. It just can't turn around and redistribute the combination
as anything other than GPL.
Why would Apache licensed code be any different even if the current
issue were worked thru?
Its the lack of a reciprocal arrangement on legal/allowed importing
that is the long term blocker on ASF / FSF cooperation.
The FSF does not have reciprocal arrangements -- the GPL is all or
nothing. The Apache License is already reciprocal in nature -- as
far as we are concerned, GPL projects are free to incorporate and
redistribute our code.
....Roy
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