New Apache License?
Mark McGlone
dmcglone at san.rr.com
Tue Feb 24 22:55:18 UTC 2004
On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 06:17:37PM -0500, Joe Klemmer wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 13:39, WipeOut wrote:
>
> > >Also, I've seen comments that the new patent clause may be incompatible
> > >with the GPL - does anybody know more about this?
> >
> > Looks like the open source world is killing itself..
>
> I don't know... It seems to me that it's just showing the one great
> fault of the GPL.
According to GNU it is incompatible with the GPL (the Apache license), but
that's because of a part of the Apache license dealing with patents. The GNU
says the patent clause is a good idea and the next version of the GPL will
probably include it.
In other words, this is not a philisophical difference or rift between Apache
and GNU.
Mark McGlone
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