Apache says ASL2.0 is GPL-compatible

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday February 24, 2004 @05:27AM from the well-of-course-they-do dept.

Steve Loughran writes "The ASF board have put up on the Apache Web site, a page rebutting claims that the new ASL2.0 license is incompatible with the GPL, claims made by on an FSF page and covered in Slashdot last week.The key points are (1) The interpretation of the GPL license is not just the opinions of individuals in the FSF, it is designed to be rigorously defendable in a court of law. (2) Rather than look at opinions about compatibility, people should look at the ASF2.0 and GPL licenses to see if they really are compatible. (3) If you look at the two licenses, they really are compatible. This means there is nothing to stop you linking your [L]GPL apps against apache libraries, shipping them with apache applications, and the like." Of course, this is still up to debate.

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GPL... by ProtonMotiveForce · 2004-02-24 05:29 · Score: 1, Flamebait

Simply sucks. It's a pain in the ass.

If you're all into control - and it is about control regardless of what the FSF zealots will tell you, then by all means use it.

If you want to contribute code to the world and make it useful and extensible - use MIT/BSD/some other truly free license. _Your_ code will always remain free, what do you care if someone else adds to it?