Volker Merschmann wrote: > > I've been told that Oracle and TDF *were* in discussions but > > that the demands by TDF were sufficiently unpalatable to Oracle > > as to prevent any sort of agreement... IBM may have strongly > > suggested the ASF as a backup, but we were the runner-up in > > a sense. Taxes were not an issue...
> I do not see where the demands were "unpalatable": Well, "We believe that the MPL (over say an Apache license) as a copy-left license, is crucial to community growth and acceptance, and has proved itself with Mozilla" may not have been palatable. --- Noel --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org