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Andrew C. Oliver wrote:
> why not just go
> ahead and do that. . Change the Apache license so that it is
> incompatible with open source but compatible with Sun's terms and the
> REAL JCP?  It is a legitimate option.

Yes it is. Anyone is free to do exactly that, as long as
the result is not called an Apache license. The ASF should
not lend it's name for that.

> The majority of the people on
> those projects care more about being part of the JCP and such than
> actually being open source.

Sourceforge is their friend.

Apache stands for communities that build open source software
which is licensed under the Apache License. Not GPL, MPL, CC,
BSD, or something that is not quite open and not quite Apache.

cheers,
  Roland