Antville License Change

[Tobi Schäfer]

Hello again, Antville developer's mailing-list, after quite some time...

I hope the fellow subscribers are doing fine and that those to whom  
this message may concern are still reading here.

As you might have noticed I returned from my resignation of  
developing Antville and proclaimed the Antville Summer Of Code 2007  
[1] for the sake of fixing and polishing the wonderful weblog  
software to make it shine even brighter as it already did in its  
glorious past.

Now I don't want to bother you with my vision of further evolving a  
software that others might already consider a dated legacy, anyway.

It's just that I want to straighten out some things to ease the  
burden of caring about too many details and thus, to enjoy the future  
development even more.

One of these things is to replace the current, custom Antville  
License [2] with the Apache License 2.0 [3].

Why? It's more popular and actually just a more abstract version of  
the current Antville License [4]. Thus, Antville would be fitted with  
a license that is widely accepted and everbody can care a little less  
what's so special about this special Antville License.

Since some of you contributed code to the project, I want to be sure  
that this action is taken in accordance with you.

If you should have any objections against this change please consider  
to speak up now and let me hear your suggestions how we could solve  
any issue you might be concerned about.

Otherwise, after a grace period of two weeks from now (17 June 2007  
at midnight), I regard the license change as granted.

Best regards,
tobi

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[1] http://tobi.antville.org/stories/1634995/

[2] http://project.antville.org/license/17/

[3] http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html

[4] The most important difference between Antville License and Apache  
License 2.0 is, AFAIK, the latter missing point 5 ("We ask you to  
give credit..."); since this isn't an obligation of the license it  
can be considered redundant and be stated somewhere else with at  
least the same (if not even a bigger) impact.

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