[forge-dev] [RESONSE NEEDED] Changing Forge License from LGPL to EPL

Lincoln Baxter, III lincolnbaxter at gmail.com
Fri Jun 22 11:34:55 EDT 2012


That's right. You work for "the company," and they speak for you.

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Jason Porter <lightguard.jp at gmail.com>wrote:

> Nope. Also just being difficult :) not that my vote counts really.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jun 22, 2012, at 4:22, Max Rydahl Andersen <max.andersen at redhat.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I think someone did not read the email ;)
> >
> > On 21 Jun 2012, at 21:51, Jason Porter wrote:
> >
> >> +1
> >>
> >> Sent from my iPhone
> >>
> >> On Jun 21, 2012, at 11:12, Max Rydahl Andersen <max.andersen at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I approve of the change to EPL
> >>>
> >>> On 21 Jun 2012, at 18:47, Lincoln Baxter, III wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hi Everyone,
> >>>>
> >>>> We would like to change Forge from the LGPL license to the EPL
> license; this will remove the restriction on Plugin licensing which
> currently requires Plugins to be written with a compatible open-source
> license. We don't want to restrict how people can develop and distribute
> plugins, and the EPL license is much more permissive in this regard; while
> maintaining the same open-source requirements for the core Forge framework
> itself, plugins may be developed under any license a person would wish to
> use.
> >>>>
> >>>> Before we this change, if you have any objections, please reply now;
> if you are in agreement, please respond to this email stating, "I approve
> of the change to EPL."
> >>>>
> >>>> Additionally, the reason we need to ask for this permission is
> because some of our contributors have not yet signed the JBoss CLA for
> Forge. Once we change to EPL, the CLA will not be necessary :)
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks all,
> >>>> --
> >>>> Lincoln Baxter, III
> >>>> http://ocpsoft.org
> >>>> "Simpler is better."
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Lincoln Baxter, III
http://ocpsoft.org
"Simpler is better."
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