<p>I was going to say, this isn't a switch from APL to ESL. I doubt I'd advocate for that switch ever. This about LGPL to EPL, from a weak copyleft to a permissive license.</p>
<p>(The general thinking is that the permissive license makes communities easier to grow and with the right motivation, though it really depends on the circumstances.)</p>
<p>EPL is a well designed permissive license for tool platforms that support plugins. I encourage you to read it and we can discuss how it applies. I'll save my commentary until then.</p>
<p>-Dan </p>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On May 26, 2012 12:50 AM, "Lincoln Baxter, III" <<a href="mailto:lincolnbaxter@gmail.com">lincolnbaxter@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
For clarification, Forge is currently LGPL :)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 3:29 PM, George Gastaldi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gegastaldi@gmail.com" target="_blank">gegastaldi@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Absolutely ! Feel free to add anything related to it on the issue.<br>
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2012/5/24 Jason Porter <<a href="mailto:lightguard.jp@gmail.com" target="_blank">lightguard.jp@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
<div><div>> I think those interested would want to know pros / cons in laymen's terms. Could we have that in the JIRA?<br>
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> On May 24, 2012, at 13:23, George Gastaldi <<a href="mailto:gegastaldi@gmail.com" target="_blank">gegastaldi@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> Hello all,<br>
>><br>
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>> Dan Allen, Lincoln and I were discussing about moving Forge license to<br>
>> EPL (Eclipse) instead of the current Apache one.<br>
>> What are your thoughts about it? Glad if you could post your comments<br>
>> on <a href="https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-580" target="_blank">https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-580</a><br>
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>> Thanks,<br>
>><br>
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