New Apache License?

Richard Welty rwelty at averillpark.net
Sun Feb 22 18:48:03 UTC 2004


On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 18:39:23 +0000 WipeOut <wipe_out at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Looks like the open source world is killing itself..

not to fear.

> First it was MySQL,

PostgreSQL is firmly comitted to the BSD license without any
"funny stuff".

> then XFree86

it appears that there will be one or more well supported code forks
to consider as alternatives.

> and now possibly Apache, all of which 
> are major components of what makes Linux distro's useful to many of us..

again, there is a useful base of Apache code which isn't covered under
the new license to provide the basis for a more acceptably licensed code
fork. there are also a couple of alternative open source httpd packages out
there, which may not be ready for prime time yet, but this may provide
incentive.

richard
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Richard Welty                                         rwelty at averillpark.net
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