Re: [CLucene-dev] Re: license (clarification)

[Max K. <ma...@to...>]

Hi Rob,
all of this is great if you are not modifying the original code. Let's say
you are tightly integrating your code with clucene, via source rather than
a shared library. You may be ok with lgpl, or somebody can theoretically
come and demand you to publish all your code under 'derived works' clause.
Maybe you will win the case, after shelling out your hard-earned money for
lawers or maybe you will loose or give up. This is very improbable, but
you cannot have real peace of mind without a short clear license like
apache. And apache would not prevent people like me from 
contributing/improving the main open-source apache. This is what I would
LIKE to do. Without having a license which will give me a peace of mind I
would rather, frankly, start from scratch. Anyway, like Doug said, 'with
lgpl people complained and with apache the complains stopped'. So I am
going to have to keep complaining :).

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