Re: [jgroups-dev] JGroups license change ?

Hi Bela,

I would agree with you for ASL 2.0. Due to its usage with in java community.

Thanks,
Ashish Giri 




-----Original Message-----
From: Bela Ban [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 4:03 PM
To: jg-dev; jg-users
Subject: Re: [jgroups-dev] JGroups license change ?

Not a single response ?

I had a lively discussion inside of JBoss (the majority of folks were 
*against* a change), but it seems that the community is not interested 
in this, or doesn't care ?


On 7/11/11 9:52 AM, Bela Ban wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> over the years I've had quite a few projects, either commercial or open
> source, turn down JGroups because of the (LGPL 2.1) license.
>
> I've never been 100% happy with the LGPL myself because (1) it is long
> and complicated, and (2) because it is (and I'm not a lawyer) ambiguous.
> Even the creators of the LGPL spurn it...
>
> So I'm thinking about changing the license for JGroups 3.0.
>
> This is a request for comments/feedback. I'd like to get as much
> feedback as possible on whether we should do this and - if yes - to
> which license we should switch ?
>
> I understand that most open source Java projects use ASL 2.0, so this is
> a likely candidate, however, there are others such as BSD, MPL, EPL and
> so on.
>
> Unlike other projects, I wrote most of the current JGroups code, so a
> license change should be easy. The procedure would be to track down all
> contributors in the 3.0 code base and ask for their permission to change
> the license. If someone objects, I'd have to pull his/her code or
> rewrite it.
>
> Should we embark on this ?
>
> Counting on your feedback ...
> Cheers,
>

-- 
Bela Ban
Lead JGroups (http://www.jgroups.org)
JBoss / Red Hat

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