On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 08:02:21AM +0700, G B wrote: > Hello APT team, > > I'm writing to enquire whether the code copyright holders are willing > to dual license the APT code base under a BSD license or and LGPL > license so that it might be possible to be adopted in the BSD family > of OSs. I think you guys have done an excellent job implementing the > APT tools, and I'm hoping that you might see some benefit to having > wider adoption of the tools in even more OS's than it has already. The problem with this is that APT is a software with a long history and many different contributors. Changing the license would require identifing all contributors and getting them relicense their contribution. -- Julian Andres Klode - Free Software Developer Debian Developer - Contributing Member of SPI Ubuntu Member - Fellow of FSFE Website: http://jak-linux.org/ XMPP: juliank@jabber.org Debian: http://www.debian.org/ SPI: http://www.spi-inc.org/ Ubuntu: http://www.ubuntu.com/ FSFE: http://www.fsfe.org/
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