Brian Jones wrote: > I don't really see the FSF backing down from the point of view that the > users of free software should have the right to modify and release the > software and Apache is unlikely to change either, as they have benefited > enormously (in terms of brand at least) from letting anyone embed their > software without having to divulge the source code to users. Huh? This is not the issue. Both licenses are compatible with the software being embedded/linked with non-Free code. > So, given these things and my love for this project, I would really like > the FSF to allow the developers to provide Classpath under an Apache > compatible license in addition to the current licensing scheme, The FSF's hope is that GPL3 will be such a license. -- --Per Bothner per@xxxxxxxxxxx http://per.bothner.com/