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Re: IBM doesn't like the GPL


From: Hyman Rosen
Subject: Re: IBM doesn't like the GPL
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:54:34 -0400
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Alexander Terekhov wrote:
Hey Hyman, quiz! Which statement is the correct one?

    <http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0>
    "Derivative Works" shall mean any work, whether in Source or Object
    form, that is based on (or derived from) the Work and for which the
    editorial revisions, annotations, elaborations, or other modifications
    represent, as a whole, an original work of authorship. For the purposes
    of this License, Derivative Works shall not include works that remain
    separable from, or merely link (or bind by name) to the interfaces of,
    the Work and Derivative Works thereof.
    ...
    Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, each Contributor
    hereby grants to You a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge,
    royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare
    Derivative Works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense,
    and distribute the Work and such Derivative Works in Source or Object
    form.

The license grants permission to sublicense a covered work itself as well
as works based on the covered work. Therefore a work covered by the Apache
license and a work based on it may both be distributed under the GPL.


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