[sldev] Re: APR

dale at daleglass.net dale at daleglass.net
Wed Jun 27 17:15:38 PDT 2007


On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 07:11:29PM -0500, Argent Stonecutter wrote:
> >If we can get rid of APR, all the better, it's not GPL compatible.
> 
> Not being GPL-compatible shouldn't be a problem, because LL includes  
> an exception for FOSS.
> 
> Being GPL would be a bigger problem for LL.
> 
> That's going to be more important as GPL3 software starts showing up,  
> since GPL3 isn't GPL2-compatible. :(

I don't see why that is a problem.

The contribution agreement in my understanding specifies you're
assigning copyright to LL. In that case there's no non-LL-owned code in
the source even with contributed patches added, so LL is perfectly free
to release new versions under the GPL3 if needed.

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