Status of ACE License Submission

Andy Tai lichengtai at yahoo.com
Thu Sep 22 11:47:40 UTC 2005


Please consider dual license it under the Apache
License 2 and the GNU LGPL so ACE can be used in GPLed
programs.  Just using the Apache license will make ACE
not usable with GPL programs, severely limiting
ACE/TAO.

--- Russell Nelson <nelson at crynwr.com> wrote:
> Yes.  Your license is not reusable by any other
> party.  May I suggest
> that rather than creating Yet Another License which
> nobody else is
> going to use, you switch to using the Apache 2.0
> License?  It seems to
> cover all your bases better than the BSD license and
> better than your
> own license.  For example, the ACE license doesn't
> give the recipient
> a patent license.
> 
> I have marked up the ACE license with the applicable
> Apache terms and
> put it at http://russnelson.com/ACE-license.html
> 
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