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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday July 18 2017, @03:51PM   Printer-friendly
from the just-say-no dept.

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

The Apache Foundation has declared that none of its new software projects can include Facebook's booby-trapped BSD-licensed code.

The foundation's legal affairs director, Chris Mattmann, said over the weekend that libraries, frameworks and tools covered by Facebook's open-source-ish BSD-plus-Patents license should not be absorbed into any new projects.

"No new project, sub-project or codebase, which has not used Facebook BSD+Patents licensed jars (or similar), are allowed to use them," Mattmann wrote. "In other words, if you haven't been using them, you aren't allowed to start. It is Cat‑X."

The Cat‑X or "Category X" classification means a library is not allowed to be included with any Apache product.

Additionally, he said, any existing projects that rely on the BSD+Patents licensed libraries will have until August 31 to get rid of Facebook's code and find a suitable replacement that has been approved by the foundation.

Source: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/17/apache_says_no_to_facebook_code_libraries/


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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @04:28PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @04:28PM (#540998)

    You are incorrect. The blacks, gays and feminists are not building walled gardens or controlling mega corps (including media). These issues are all tools of jewery to distract you from their actions.

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @04:31PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @04:31PM (#541001)

    Tim Cock certainly is controlling a mega corp walled garden.

  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @08:06PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 18 2017, @08:06PM (#541131)

    soylent needs to clean up this horse shit. the racist trolls will condemn it to a short life riddled with strife. editors need to sort this out fast.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 19 2017, @07:47AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 19 2017, @07:47AM (#541364)

      Editors are the ones posting this, judging by their politics