ASF and Licensing

[Kevin Rushforth]

> Because moving to an organization was recently mentioned here, or 
> founding one for OpenJFX, I would like to mention a very few points. 

It has been mentioned, but there are no plans to do this.

-- Kevin


On 9/19/2018 2:05 AM, Jochen Theodorou wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Because moving to an organization was recently mentioned here, or 
> founding one for OpenJFX, I would like to mention a very few points.
>
> Corner stones for the Apache Foundation:
> *) clear and open project governance
> *) be open about decisions and develop the community the Apache way
> *) be Apache licensed and branded
>
> And while I think OpenJFX will manage the first two points I am really 
> wondering about the licensing issue. GPL2 with or without CE is 
> considered category-x, which means it cannot be included in an Apache 
> product: https://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-x
>
> That means incubation involves (among other things) clearing up and 
> transferring the "IP" to the Apache Software Foundation, and then 
> licensing the project under Apache License.
>
> Right now the project is kind of unusable for the ASF
>
> bye Jochen