Eric Friedman

What's happening?

Followup: RE: license and package name update

I know that under the ASL, others would not be required to contribute back. And that under the LGPL, we have been successful in compelling (yes, compelling) people who were shipping modified binaries to provide the modifications back. The 90% IT thing is not really a significant consideration. Those who modify and don't contribute aren't going to change course based on the license. The...

2009-08-19 17:06:10 UTC in Trove for Java
Followup: RE: license and package name update

Guys, Same answer as before. We use the LGPL so that people can't improve trove and not share their improvements back with us. We have gotten several helpful enhancements because of this license requirement, so this is not merely philosophical posturing. You'll see that the ASF is opposed to dual-licensing too, so this really isn't a reducible problem...

2009-08-19 15:38:00 UTC in Trove for Java