There's nothing stopping you from forking a branch of DataViews.
However, you cannot change the license to LGPL.
On 11/3/07, Demetrios Kyriakis <demetrios.kyriaki..ooglemail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Since the Cayenne team is not very interested in DataViews, but many users
> are, the most simple solution to me looks to move DataViews to a place where
> users can contribute much easier.
>
> Because of it's "patch" based contribution restriction, and especially of
> the long list of incompatible "licenses", I'm not sure if Apache.org is the
> best place to get help from users with as few as possible "barriers".
>
> Also an important step would be to switch the license from Apache to LGPL.
> It seems that the Apache license is not too GUI friendly: just looks how few
> projects on Apache.org have GUI's and how many good GUI oriented libraries
> or tools are LGPL.
>
> Any other ideas on what could be done to re-invigorate DataViews?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Demetrios.
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