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

[Ivan St. Ivanov]

*I approve of the change to EPL.*

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Jason Porter <lightguard.jp at gmail.com>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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