I second what Erik and Ville said.
I would be happy for ABCL to be used in a commercial project, and I would not be personally against releasing a version of ABCL, including my contributions, under a commercial license (whose profits could go towards improving ABCL). But relicensing it under a permissive license, just so that some business can make money from it for free without any form of compensation, would be unfair in my opinion. I mean, Oracle itself applies the very same licensing scheme to Java and the JVM: GPL with classpath exception for OpenJDK, and a commercial license for Oracle JDK.
Cheers, Alessio
On Sun, Aug 9, 2020, 11:32 Ville Voutilainen ville.voutilainen@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, 9 Aug 2020 at 11:59, Mark Evenson evenson@panix.com wrote:
Describing my offer to be willing consider relicensing ABCL with proper financial and legal support for the work it would entail is hardly
“cold”. If
you derive commercial value from something, you should be prepared to
partake
in the externality costs involved in the creating the financial value
you seek
to extract.
Greetings. My contributions to ABCL are not up for relicensing to bsd/mit/apache; they were written under the expectation that ABCL is and will remain GPL.
Thank you, and have a nice day.