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Re: changing license?



Hi all!

I think Apache style license both for Infozone and Ozone would be great!
Still not tested Infozone, but will soon.

Zvi

Falko Braeutigam wrote:

> On Fri, 09 Jun 2000, David Duddleston wrote:
> > Moving the project to Apache would be excellent. Should increase momentum
> > for Ozone.
> I don't think that we will move *ozone* to Apache - just Infozone for now. This
> may result in a tight integration of ozone and an Apache project (Infozone),
> which inturn may lead to a tight ozone Apache integration which may lead to
> other things later. But this is out of the scope of the current discussion.
>
> I would like to keep ozone a general OODBMS - with XML capabilities. If we
> would change the goal of the ozone project to build a XML only storage system,
> then we should totally integrate it in Infozone. But I don't want to do this
> because I don't see a benefit.
>
> Falko
>
> >
> > -david
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Falko Braeutigam [mailto:falko@softwarebuero.de]
> > > Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 3:12 AM
> > > To: ozone-users@ozone-db.org
> > > Subject: changing license?
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > > as you know we have officially started the new Infozone project
> > > some days ago.
> > > Now there is a discussion about the possibilities to make
> > > Infozone/Prowler an
> > > Apache XML project. (note: *nothing* is decided yet!) *If*
> > > Infozone goes the
> > > Apache way, it has to be released under the Apache license. That
> > > in turn means
> > > that, since ozone/XML is widely used by Infozone, we would have
> > > to change the
> > > ozone license from (L)GPL to BSD style too. Does anybody,
> > > especially the code
> > > contributors, see a problem here? Other ideas?
> > >
> > >
> > > Falko
> > > --
> > > ______________________________________________________________________
> > > Falko Braeutigam                         mailto:falko@softwarebuero.de
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> > >
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> ______________________________________________________________________
> Falko Braeutigam                         mailto:falko@softwarebuero.de
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