License considerations

[mreider]

I work for VMWare, and we are open sourcing a large project called Cloud Foundry, which is available for download on Github, and also available as a service at cloudfoundry.com. We have a number of participants, including people in industry, academia, and government.

We have chosen to license our software under Apache v.2, which is incompatible with GPL and LGPL as you can read here: http://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html and here http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html

If MIT or Apache is not your preference, the Ruby license offers both GPL, and Apache compatible terms.

http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/LICENSE.txt

Thanks for your consideration.

Matt

[colbygk]

hmmm. chews on this

[mreider]

Thanks for chewing a bit.

Our alternative is to cut it out of our release, which is not a huge deal, but we love the project and would rather keep it intact.

[jpalermo]

+1
Something compatible with Apache v.2 license would help us out too.