Re: [jgroups-dev] [javagroups-users] JGroups license change ?

You are exactly correct, but the fact is you *could* track what they are 
doing if you had the time or help.  With those other languages *they* 
get to decide whether you have that ability.

Not that that's a bad thing - I've released a couple things under the 
Apache license precisely because I wanted to encourage uptake and didn't 
care if that happened.  In one case, we even encouraged it.

And you're quite welcome.  The LEAST I could do since JGroups saved us a 
TON of time and gave us a stable platform to build off of.

Jeff

On 07/14/2011 02:59 AM, Bela Ban wrote:
>
> On 7/13/11 5:49 PM, Jeffrey Hoyt wrote:
>> Apache 2.0/BSD/MIT would give you a wider user base, but less control.
>> They are VERY business friendly and permissive. They also make it very
>> easy to fork, change, and not contribute back, which is what the LGPL
>> was designed to prevent.
> Even under the LGPL, people can fork JGroups, although they cannot
> change the license. Even if they make the changes available, e.g. via
> their GitHub fork, it would be tedious for me to keep track of their
> changes and integrate them into JGroups. This is essentially the same as
> a fork where the src code is not made available.
>
> I suspect under ASL they can copy the code and change the license, too.
>
> Thanks for your feedback, Jeffrey !
>

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