Re: @AC - Remember Open Office
Wrong. The "restrictions" you mention posed by the apache license would be to remove the additional restrictions added by the GPL.
If someone take apache code and close-sources it, would you still say it's the apache license that can't take the code back becuase it wants to add "restrictions" to remove the restrictions added?
Sorry, it doesn't work that way.
Similarly, the argument (not from you) that the GPL is more free than the BSD license because it restricts people from taking the code without giving back is not a freedom, it's a restriction.. However "fair" one deems that restriction, it is one.
Most GPL fans don't even understand the license.. One was complaining once because some company qas selling a product (perfectly legally) that contained GPL code he'd written. There are many with the same opinion.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
