On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 20:02, klaus schilling wrote:
Rui Miguel Silva Seabra writes:
If the ASF changed the httpd to GPL, other companies either have to compete with a derived version of the apache httpd they use, make their derived work GPL, or turn to proprietary httpds. It does not in anyway restrict competition. I think it even fosters competition.
How easily may the ASF change Apache's license? Wouldn't it require the consense of a terrible lot of contributors, some of them possibly being directly involved in existing proprietary extensions?
Klaus,
this was an hipothetical situation that was posed as a way to argue that GPL could be a target of antitrust law. I doubpt very much the ASF would ever do such a thing.
Hugs, rui