Apache resigns from the Java Community Process executive committee

Apache resigns from the Java Community Process executive committee

Releasing under a free license doesn't necessarily make software "free". Say, you disassemble MS Word and publish the resulting source under GPL. I don't think many people would argue that the result is "free" by any definition.

Suddenly we have two people trying to prove a point by referring to situations involving the "re-release" of proprietary software. If you don't have permission to redistribute a work, you certainly aren't allowed to put a licence of your choice on it and redistribute it at all, whether you want to apply the GPL or something else to it. So that really has nothing to do with software legitimately distributed under the GPL.