Re: Apache Foundation rejects GPL again

[Rjack]

7 wrote:
> Rjack wrote:
>
> > "The license under which JCK is currently available dictates
> > that the OpenJDK, GPL-licensed Java Virtual Machines can use
> > the JCK free of charge. Commercial developers however, still
> > have to pay for the right to use the JCK license.
> >
> > The rub for Apache, however, is it doesn't use the GPL for
> > Apache Harmony, which is the project responsible for creating
> > an Apache licensed Java implementation."
> >
> > http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/integration
> showArticle.jhtml?articleID=215800810&subSection=Integration
> > Sincerely, Rjack :)
>
>
> You little fraudster you.
>
> The mind boggles on whether retards like you are spliffing before
> posting.
>
> GPL is not compatible with how Apache wants to run its open
> source projects. So it can't use the GPL because it can't comply
> with GPL terms. Some day it should make the effort to comply
> itself with GPL3 - it will do them a world of good. Otherwise,
> like BSD software that becomes less free as time goes by,
> accomodating every non GPL project may also infect Apache core
> projects.

"Free" as "free as a bird" to use the offered copyrights as you wish
-- like in BSD or MIT licensed software.

"Restricted" as in GPL'd software. Richard Stallman usurped and
bastardized the MIT license into the GPL while at MIT.

Sincerely,
Rjack :)






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