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Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:55:04 +0800
Message-ID: <caf30e2a0908091955p397f937am15c1d12f0e73c15@mail.gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Move log4cplus' license to ASL 2.0.
From: Niclas Hedhman <niclas@hedhman.org>
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V=E1clav,
If your only intention is to make the codebase compatible with GPL,
perhaps you don't know that according to FSF the Apache License v1.1
can be used in Gnu GPLv2 work. I assume (but that may not hold true)
that it is also be compatible with GPLv3.

Cheers
Niclas

2009/8/9 V=E1clav Haisman <v.haisman@sh.cvut.cz>:
> Hi.
> I have asked[1] in this mailing list about license issues with log4cplus'=
 ASL
> 1.1. Recently, the owner of most of the code in log4cplus (Tad E. Smith) =
gave
> me OK to relicense his code under ASL 2.0. I want to make this step to ma=
ke
> log4cplus' license compatible with GPLv3. The remaining issue I see is th=
at
> some of the code in log4cplus comes from early log4j 1.2 which is covered=
 by
> ASL 1.1. Later releases of log4j are under ASL 2.0. Is it ok for me to
> relicense this derived code also under ASL 2.0, from the point of view of=
 the
> Apache Foundation as the owner of the original code?
>
> [1]
> <http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-legal-discuss/200902.mbox/%=
3C498D4E06.1000008@sh.cvut.cz%3E>
>
> --
> VH
>
>


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