Apache resigns from the Java Community Process executive committee
Apache resigns from the Java Community Process executive committee
Posted Dec 10, 2010 17:24 UTC (Fri) by DOT (subscriber, #58786)In reply to: Apache resigns from the Java Community Process executive committee by paulj
Parent article: Apache resigns from the Java Community Process executive committee
It sure isn't universally agreed on. Many people don't want free software licenses to say anything about patents. And before today, I also thought of the GPL as an utterly free software license, but this "downstream recipients only" concept does not sound free to me at all. If restricted at all, the patent license should be restricted to all GPL licensed software, not just the one project, which would bring it in line with the strong copyleft mechanism that the rest of the GPL employs.
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