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Date:      Sat, 25 Apr 1998 19:45:22 +0200 (SAT)
From:      Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za>
To:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   apacheweek.com on licensing issues
Message-ID:  <E0yT90s-0006I2-00@ns.cityip.co.za>

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The often very level-headed people at Apache Week use some interesting
wording in the latest version of their online newsletter, to be found at:
http://www.apacheweek.com/issues/98-04-24

I quote:

 "Performance Computing contains an article about
  <a href="http://www.performancecomputing.com/columns/web/9805.shtml">The
  Apache HTTP Server</a>.  This article treats Apache seriously, and gives a
  farirly realistic assessment of its strengths and (particularly for
  Windows) weaknesses. It does however describe Apache code as being under
  the GPL license, where as in fact Apache is under a license much closer to
  the less restrictive FreeBSD license. For example, the Apache license
  allows for commercial use of the code in products which are not themselves
  available as source-code, subject to an "advertising" clause."

Note the "less restrictive".  That should catch the eye of a few Apache
users, one would hope.  The article they link to also refers to Linux and
FreeBSD in the same breath, several times.

-- V

Johann Visagie | Email: wjv@CityIP.co.za | Tel: +27 21 419-7878

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