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Apache says ASL2.0 is GPL-compatible

Posted by CmdrTaco on 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.

12 of 384 comments (clear)

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  2. ATTN: People who say "meh" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You are fucking stupid. You are trend followers. Whoever says "Meh" is a fucking retard.

    1. Re:ATTN: People who say "meh" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Meh.

  3. Re:FSF alone does not decide what GPL stands for by GnuVince · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    5: Insightful?! He took a quote and said "Good point". Please mod this down.

  4. Re:All arguments aside... by smackjer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Flamebait? Must have been moderated by the submitter. ;)

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    In Nazi Germany, licenses are not allowed.

  6. Re:mod do3N by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  7. Re:All arguments aside... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You forgot to add:

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  8. So, what you're saying is that by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    People who say 'meh' are not on the spoke, but are off in the weeds?

  9. Re:mod do3N by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    goatse.cx has been shut down.

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