[forge-dev] Forge License

[Dan Allen]

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 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> For clarification, Forge is currently LGPL :)
>
> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 3:29 PM, George Gastaldi <gegastaldi at 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 at gmail.com>:
>> > I think those interested would want to know pros / cons in laymen's
>> terms. Could we have that in the JIRA?
>> >
>> > Sent from my iPhone
>> >
>> > On May 24, 2012, at 13:23, George Gastaldi <gegastaldi at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> 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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