Re: [jgroups-dev] JGroups license change ?

Bela,

If you are ruling out an optional dual-license approach (commercial/open
source) in the future, then an Apache license is probably a good choice. If
on the other hand, you may consider reducing the amount of free riders and
get people to contribute, either code or money, I'd consider AGPL  (that's
the one we use).

My 2 uruguayan pesos

@apr

On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 07:33, Bela Ban <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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