GPL - possible violation - what should I do?
klaus schilling
320085037630-0001 at t-online.de
Wed Mar 20 20:02:20 UTC 2002
Rui Miguel Silva Seabra writes:
> If the ASF changed the httpd to GPL, other companies either have to
> compete with a derived version of the apache httpd they use, make their
> derived work GPL, or turn to proprietary httpds.
>
> It does not in anyway restrict competition. I think it even fosters
> competition.
>
How easily may the ASF change Apache's license? Wouldn't it require the
consense of a terrible lot of contributors, some of them possibly being
directly involved in existing proprietary extensions?
Klaus Schilling
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