Re: The new apache license

["Rod.. Whitworth" <listen@witworx.com>]

On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 00:30:03 +0100, Rembrandt wrote:

>On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 16:38:08 -0700
>deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org (Theo de Raadt) wrote:
>
>> And another license issue..
>> 
>> The new apache license is not acceptable.  Code written under that
>> new license will never go into our tree.
>
>And what would you do?!
>Delete the source out of our tree?
>And then? Then what? We've no Apache...?! Apache would be avaiable as
>port/package?!

<snip rest of crap>

See what it said? "new licence"

The new licence does not apply to code covered by the old licence, only
to new code or a combined package of old and new.

As long as updates with the new licence do not pollute what we already
have, we are fine.

Nobody can retrospectively take away permission already granted unless
they reserved the right to do that in the first place. Even then it is
doubtful they could make it stick unless they notified users in
writing. Fat chance.

Never heard of a fork?

>From the land "down under": Australia.
Do we look <umop apisdn> from up over?

Do NOT CC me - I am subscribed to the list.
Replies to the sender address will fail except from the list-server.