Return-Path: Delivered-To: new-httpd-archive@hyperreal.org Received: (qmail 687 invoked by uid 6000); 26 May 1999 05:46:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 631 invoked from network); 26 May 1999 05:46:06 -0000 Received: from twinlark.arctic.org (204.107.140.52) by taz.hyperreal.org with SMTP; 26 May 1999 05:46:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 26622 invoked by uid 500); 26 May 1999 05:46:01 -0000 Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 22:46:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Dean Gaudet To: new-httpd@apache.org Subject: Re: oh... the irony In-Reply-To: <374B6E9C.6F30D1D@lyra.org> Message-ID: X-Comment: Visit http://www.arctic.org/~dgaudet/legal for information regarding copyright and disclaimer. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: new-httpd-owner@apache.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: new-httpd@apache.org On Tue, 25 May 1999, Greg Stein wrote: > Funny that Apache is one of the most successful open-source efforts to > date, yet it is still subject to the whims of corporate intellectual > property concerns... > > Sigh. Had to be said. Dude, it's not just corporations who have IP concerns -- universities also have IP concerns. The MPL 1.0 is just wrong in the patent clause, and any university lawyer awake enough would prevent all their employees from contributing code to an MPLed program... because doing so compromises the university's IP. A lot of open source folks come from universities. I know your frustration -- apache-nspr never went anywhere because NSPR was under the NPL. It's not "all bad", we learned stuff (some day someone needs to mine out the bugfixes and stuff I did in nspr which will otherwise be lost ;) One of these days I hope to understand this need for all open source projects to include all other open source projects in their source tree ;) Dean