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patric-r / jvmtop

Java monitoring for the command-line, profiler included
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License change plan #114

Open cowboy93 opened 5 years ago

cowboy93 commented 5 years ago

Hi I want to distribute this jvmtop with source to everyone But this jvmtop is GPL V2 licensed.

Don't you have a plan to change license to Apache license ?

Regards.

kamstrup commented 5 years ago

I what capacity does the GPL2 license prevent you from distributing? Binary distribution of GPL2 code is basically what all linux distros are based on so pretty sure it's a safe bet ;-) (as long as you make the source available via similar distribution means)

cowboy93 commented 5 years ago

what capacity does the GPL2 license prevent you from distributing? ==> No. But my company's basic open source contributing rule is using Apache license. That's why I asked to him.

kant111 commented 5 years ago

Yeah, why is it not Apache License? moreover, there is no release since 2015? I think if the License is Apache many people would want to contribute and probably get more maintainers. This project is awesome, not sure why it is in a dormant state?