Re: Change License

On Wednesday 11 December 2013, Daniele Varrazzo wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:10 PM, Abraham Elmahrek <abe@cloudera.com> wrote:
> > Hey Guys,
> >
> > Thanks for the speedy responses. I work on the Hue project at Cloudera.
>
> Note: the correct url above is <http://www.apache.org/legal/3party.html>.
>
> I didn't know the Apache Software Foundation was in open war with the
> GPL. Well, too bad: it seems you chose the wrong license for your
> software.

++ I agree.

IMHO the restriction is the ASL that forbids you to use other /open/ licenses.
Very strange that they do so, as your code would /link/ against psycopg2, not
technically /derive/ from it.

I would also vote against re-licensing psycopg2, as that would introduce a
backdoor for /not contributing/ back any improvements.

LGPL is a wonderful license, it does not "infect" users of the library, but
only requires that you push back work you do on our project.

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