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Computer Business Review: FSF Admits Defeat on Apache

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“The Free Software Foundation has admitted defeat in its
attempts to ensure that the forthcoming GNU GPLv3 is compatible
with the Apache and Eclipse licenses, meaning that code from some
of the leading free and open source projects can still not be
merged.

“‘We regret that we will not achieve compatibility of the Apache
License, Version 2.0, with GPLv3, despite what we had previously
promised,’ said the FSF in an explanatory document accompanying its
latest draft of the GPL…”


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