[xwiki-dev] any consideration towards a dual licence or licence change?

[Bradley Beddoes]

Hi,
Having not seen any traffic was there any consideration given to this?

regards,
Bradley

Bradley Beddoes wrote:
> Hi All,
> I have had a search through the archives and couldn't find much on this 
> topic, though if there is a thread I have missed please point me in the 
> right direction and accept my apologies.
> 
> My primary question is has the project considered supporting the Apache 
> 2.0 license (or similar)? We generally find this makes integration with 
> other OSS projects a lot easier as its much less restrictive then 
> GPL/LGPL which in turn attracts more folks, especially from corporate land.
> 
> I understand that LGPL may have been chosen to ensure that the community 
> is forced to release modifications back to the project, however we have 
> personally found that this works equally as well with the Apache 2.0 
> license and removes the extra confusion (we are programmers after all 
> not lawyers :) ).
> 
> A change to Apache 2.0 or a dual license if it was felt needed would 
> certainly get a big vote from myself.
> 
> regards,
> Bradley
> 
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