[News.eclipse.foundation] Re: GNU License text version

[Alex Blewitt <alex_blewitt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, that's why I was <a href="http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/forums/t84348.html";>wondering if Sun's GPL</a> is such a good thing earlier.

I knew that Antlr was GPL, and wasn't sure if it was the only example. Plus, I'm not authoritative enough to say so for sure :-)

Mind you, I wonder if Sun picked the GPL (and for NetBeans some way down the line) specifically because GPL and EPL are incompatible, whereas if they'd have used the AL instead, it would have been (since Eclipse redistributes e.g. <a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.apache.ant/lib/";>Ant</a> and others from ASF).

Alex.