Oops, I totally got that wrong.

EPL is a copyleft license. The important difference from LGPL is that EPL clearly states that linking is not a derivative work (the main confusion over LGPL) and allows relicensing of binaries under commercial terms. Thus, it's very business/commercial friendly for plugin writers. Like LGPL, modifications to source code in Forge proper do have to be contributed back.

So I guess ASL is on the table.

(I'm still not sure I would advocate ASL to EPL, but time will tell).

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On May 26, 2012 4:24 PM, "Dan Allen" <dan.j.allen@gmail.com> wrote:

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.

(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.)

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.

-Dan

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On May 26, 2012 12:50 AM, "Lincoln Baxter, III" <lincolnbaxter@gmail.com> wrote:
For clarification, Forge is currently LGPL :)

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 3:29 PM, George Gastaldi <gegastaldi@gmail.com> wrote:
Absolutely ! Feel free to add anything related to it on the issue.

Regards,

George Gastaldi

2012/5/24 Jason Porter <lightguard.jp@gmail.com>:
> I think those interested would want to know pros / cons in laymen's terms. Could we have that in the JIRA?
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> On May 24, 2012, at 13:23, George Gastaldi <gegastaldi@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hello all,
>>
>>
>> Dan Allen, Lincoln and I were discussing about moving Forge license to
>> EPL (Eclipse) instead of the current Apache one.
>> What are your thoughts about it? Glad if you could post your comments
>> on https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-580
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> George Gastaldi
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