[LLVMdev] To APR Or Not To APR. That is the question.

[Alexander Boström]

mån 2004-09-13 klockan 06:45 +0000 skrev en okänd avsändare:

> I should also add that (I think) we should only use software that can 
> be redistributed freely by us in any form (so that LLVM continues to 
> work "out-of-the-box"), and which has a license roughly as liberal as 
> LLVM does.  In particular, we can't include any GPL software directly 
> within the LLVM distribution.  I looked through the Apache license and 
> I think it's ok on these two issues:
> 	http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html

According to http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html the Apache
Software License, version 2.0 is incompatible with the GPL. If LLVM
would require the APR, then this could mean that GPL software would not
be allowed to use LLVM, or perhaps only use it in certain ways (for
example exec:ing binaries but not linking to libraries).

/abo