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Re:What I Learned Building Twitter Bootstrap by kibwen on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @08:25AM (#4904405) 

  > right now it's under the Apache License v2 – but we're
  > working to move it to MIT for 3.0.0
What's the impetus for this? Losing patent protection and gaining strict GPL2 compatibility seems like a strange decision.
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Re:What I Learned Building Twitter Bootstrap by caniszczyk on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @11:12AM (#4905084)
See this issue for more information:

https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/issues/2054

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Re:What I Learned Building Twitter Bootstrap by kibwen on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @03:31PM (#4906634)
Interesting, thanks. It looks as though you rejected the idea of dual-licensing. It's totally understandable that you'd want to avoid the hassle, although a dual MIT/ASL2 really does give you the maximum protection and flexibility. There's at least one big open-source project that's recently taken this exact route:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.rust.devel/2593/matc...

...though in their case they were moving from MIT to a dual MIT/ASL2.

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