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

[Richard Kennard]

I approve of the change to EPL.

On 22/06/2012 7:42 AM, Ivan St. Ivanov wrote:
> *I approve of the change to EPL.*
>
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Jason Porter <lightguard.jp at gmail.com <mailto: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 <mailto:max.andersen at redhat.com>> wrote:
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>     > 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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