Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact ant-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 1676 invoked from network); 18 Jan 2001 22:29:51 -0000 Received: from femail6.sdc1.sfba.home.com (24.0.95.86) by h31.sny.collab.net with SMTP; 18 Jan 2001 22:29:51 -0000 Received: from cx63989a ([24.1.136.62]) by femail6.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with SMTP id <20010118222957.RVJI8664.femail6.sdc1.sfba.home.com@cx63989a> for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 14:29:57 -0800 From: "Preston L. Bannister" To: Subject: RE: [Coding Standards] Apache licence and GPL compatible? Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 14:29:57 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 In-reply-to: <5.0.0.25.0.20010118212039.020fba50@mail.urbanet.ch> X-Spam-Rating: h31.sny.collab.net 1.6.2 0/1000/N From: Ceki Gulcu [mailto:cgu@urbanet.ch] > The number of people who really understand open source licensing is > probably fewer than the number of scholars who understand general > relativity. Does it all boil down to two egos (RMS/ESR)? Ceki One practical difference is that the GPL is coercive. The GPL wants to *force* you to license the code you write under the GPL if you use any GPL code ("copyleft"). This is very often a practical problem. ( Discussion on this topic can and has gone on at great length. I don't really want to re-visit a 15 yead old issue :).