NCSA Open Source License

Albert Chin license-discuss at lists.thewrittenword.com
Sun Jan 20 05:15:19 UTC 2002


On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 07:29:12PM -0800, Brian Behlendorf wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Bruce Perens wrote:
> > OK - one might consider that it's one license _text_ rather than
> > 4, but yes it's three licenses. Is it possible to sucessfully
> > lobby Apache to get rid of the advertising clause? They probably
> > have enough experience now to see it's had no positive effect.
> 
> Um, no.  We are talking about a rev of the Apache license to address
> some concerns, but there are things about the current "advertising"
> clause (you've read it recently, right?  It's GPL compatible, we
> believe) that are pretty positive for us.

According to
http://www.fsf.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLIncompatibleLicenses,
neither v1.0 or 1.1 of the Apache License is GPL-compatible. The 1.1
license is on Apache 1.3.22 and what is currently 2.0 in development.

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