Challenge with ABCL on a commercial project: Licensing

[Alessio Stalla]

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 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Sun, 9 Aug 2020 at 11:59, Mark Evenson <evenson at 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.
>
>
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