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.