Re: Change License

On 11/12/2013 03:47, Daniele Varrazzo wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:10 PM, Abraham Elmahrek <abe(at)cloudera(dot)com> wrote:
>> > Hey Guys,
>> >
>> > Thanks for the speedy responses. I work on the Hue project at Cloudera. Hue
>> > is an ASLv2 licensed project and according too
>> > http://www.apache.org/legal/3party.htm LGPL is excluded from the list of
>> > shippable licenses. The end goal is to be able to ship psycopg2 since it's a
>> > complete client for postgresql that django fully supports.
> Note: the correct url above is <http://www.apache.org/legal/3party.html>.
>
> I didn't know the Apache Software Foundation was in open war with the
> GPL. Well, too bad: it seems you chose the wrong license for your
> software.
>
> We could be able to provide a personal, non-transferable license for
> projects whose lawyers insist to require it; however your license
> seems to forbid this option too.
>
> I'm afraid the chance to see psycopg released with a non-LGPL license
> are quite low.

I'd say they are 0. :)

federico

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