Another Make

Wed Oct 11 08:14:00 GMT 2000

Per Bothner wrote:
>> Cedric Berger <cedric@wireless-networks.com> writes:
>> > Beside: If you really want a GPL Ant, there is an easier way to redo
> > anything:
> > - Download Ant source
> > - Rename it Dog
> > - Stick the GPL license on it
> > - Give a few due acknowlegments
> > - That's it.
> >
> > This is the beauty of the BSD license.
>> Er, that is not true for the original BSD license, which *conflicts*
> with the GPL, due to the "advertising clause". The newer BSD license
> does not have the advertising clause. The original Apache license was
> basically the *old* BSD license, *with* the troublesome advertising
> clause. Ant has the Apache 1.1 license, which replaced the advertising
> clause with with what I might call a "credit clause":
>> * 3. The end-user documentation included with the redistribution, if any, must
> * include the following acknowledgment: "This product includes software
> * developed by the Apache Software Foundation ( http://www.apache.org/ )."
> * Alternately, this acknowledgment may appear in the software itself, if
> * and wherever such third-party acknowledgments normally appear.
>
I thought I mentionned that on the 4th point of my TODO-list.
Is it really such a big deal?
Besides, Is it not what people like Cygnus/Redhat do all the time?
(for example, The TCP/IP stack of eCos, straight from OpenBSD?)
Cedric