Apache resigns from the Java Community Process executive committee [LWN.net]

Apache resigns from the Java Community Process executive committee

Posted Dec 13, 2010 15:53 UTC (Mon) by pboddie (guest, #50784)
In reply to: Apache resigns from the Java Community Process executive committee by DOT
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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.

But how else would a licence based on the principles of copyright actually function?