CPL != GPL

CPL != GPL

Posted Aug 15, 2005 10:22 UTC (Mon) by hingo (guest, #14792)
Parent article: HP exec decries proliferation of open source license types (InfoWorld)

Actually, the Common Public License is very different from the GPL. It is quite similar to the Apache License. (Think BSD with a patent termination clause.) Abandoning it in favor of the GPL is kind of like saying that you don't need a laptop, because I already have a bicycle :-)

But it is true that licenses could be consolidated. Just pick the combinations as examples.

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