On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Dave Fisher <dave2w...@comcast.net> wrote: > > Once licensing issues are understood then a way the two communities might > mutually cooperate becomes clear. And here it is LO/TDF might contribute to > Apache OO by providing portions of the LO codebase as MPL binary libraries. > > Sam, is this the direction you are leading us?
While minor portions of a distribution which are unlikely to need to be modified may be made available under the MPL, it is not the intent of the ASF to produce distributions consisting substantially of materials made available under other licenses. In general, the philosophy is that there are lots of good licenses out there, and people should feel comfortable with their choice of license. If others wish to use the Apache License, they are of course welcome to do so, and need not give anything back either to us... or to anybody else. However those that wish to use a license other than the Apache License will need to do so elsewhere. Those that do so are welcome to make use of our code as long as they follow the generous terms of our license. This isn't about good/bad. It isn't an ideology. It merely is a definition of what the Apache Software Foundation produces. It sets an expectation of what our users can expect from us. Further details here: http://www.apache.org/legal/ramblings.html > Regards, > Dave Fisher - Sam Ruby --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
