[TM4J-users] TM4J license broadening

[<xua...@ba...>]

Hi Kal,

I'm thinking that it would be good if TM4J could be licensed under
additional licenses besides the Apache 1.0 license. One reason is that
the Apache 1.0 license is GPLv2-incompatible and GPLv3-incompatible,
limiting the linkability of TM4J with other open source software
projects. That's why I'd like to propose that TM4J should be licensed
under following licenses:

    * the original TM4J license (which is an Apache 1.0 license)
    * the Apache 2 license
    * the GPL v2 license
    * the GPL v3 license
    * the LGPL v2.1 license
    * the MPL v1.1 license

as well as any later versions of these licenses.

The rationale behind this long list of licenses is that to ensure
linkability with other open source software projects once and forever.
The "as well as any later versions of these licenses" is an intended
loophole to allow for adaption to future legal developments in the
spirit of the current licenses which we do not yet know (i.e. a GPLv4,
an Apache 3 license, ...) by the respective license standard setting
committees. This makes the explicit listing of some of these licenses
unnecessary (because some of these licenses are compatible with others),
but I'd like the minimum-license-list to be as explicit as possible such
that any doubt cast on license compatibility does not create fear,
uncertainty or doubt regarding license applicability.


To achieve this license broadening, consent is needed from nearly every
author, you being the most prominent one, that's why I start with you.
(As time goes by, contacting authors becomes more difficult, that's why
I better start now than later.)
So, what do you (and others) think about this proposal?


ciao,
Xu=E2n.

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