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

Jason Porter lightguard.jp at gmail.com
Fri Jun 22 11:52:00 EDT 2012


Yep, pretty much. 

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On Jun 22, 2012, at 9:34, "Lincoln Baxter, III" <lincolnbaxter at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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,
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> >>>> Lincoln Baxter, III
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> >>>> "Simpler is better."
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