From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
To: Fangrui Song <i@maskray.me>
Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@wdc.com>,
"binutils@sourceware.org" <binutils@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Release 2.35 on Friday 24th ?
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2020 00:55:14 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.21.2007250052380.1561071@eddie.linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200724233425.q7iuvxwfd7bryflk@gmail.com>
On Fri, 24 Jul 2020, Fangrui Song wrote:
> https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#apache2
>
> > This is a free software license, compatible with version 3 of the GNU GPL.
>
> http://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html
>
> > Apache 2 software can therefore be included in GPLv3 projects, because
> > the GPLv3 license accepts our software into GPLv3 works.
It is as compatible as say the BSD licence is, but it does not prevent a
licensee from closing down their sources and using them in proprietary
software. IOW a licensee is allowed to benefit from other people's work
without giving anything back. That's IMO not fair and does not guarantee
freedom to the piece of software considered, and I think it is important
to mention when considering an alternative to a piece of GNU software.
Of course everyone is (hopefully) free to make their own choices.
Maciej
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-24 23:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-02 15:05 Proposal: Earlier 2.35 release Nick Clifton
2020-06-02 15:16 ` H.J. Lu
2020-06-02 15:52 ` Michael Matz
2020-06-02 16:07 ` Matthias Klose
2020-06-02 16:11 ` Jose E. Marchesi
[not found] ` <alpine.LFD.2.21.2007221518200.24175@redsun52.ssa.fujisawa.hgst.com>
[not found] ` <7d209c63-c3e8-c22b-ce90-0bdfca4aa3f0@redhat.com>
[not found] ` <alpine.LFD.2.21.2007221712320.24175@redsun52.ssa.fujisawa.hgst.com>
2020-07-23 14:51 ` Release 2.35 on Friday 24th ? Nick Clifton
2020-07-23 15:24 ` H.J. Lu
2020-07-23 19:31 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2020-07-24 2:13 ` Alan Modra
2020-07-24 3:09 ` H.J. Lu
2020-07-24 6:20 ` Alan Modra
2020-07-24 11:23 ` Nick Clifton
2020-07-24 11:29 ` H.J. Lu
2020-07-24 11:42 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2020-07-24 23:34 ` Fangrui Song
2020-07-24 23:55 ` Maciej W. Rozycki [this message]
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