I thought Erlang was abandon within Ericsson, and it was Open Sourced so people can continue to use it.
Can anyone explain what is Erlang Public License? Why not something like Apache, GPL or MIT?
> I thought Erlang was abandon within Ericsson, and it was Open Sourced so people can continue to use it.
It was temporarily "abandoned" because Ericsson had (has?) a policy forbidding the use of non-free languages. In response, the Erlang devs open-sourced it, and now (IIRC) it's not banned anymore.
> Can anyone explain what is Erlang Public License?
It's derived from the Mozilla Public License. It differs mainly in terms of legal jurisdiction (i.e. Swedish law being specified as the applicable legal jurisdiction).
> Why not something like Apache, GPL or MIT?
Good question. The answer's probably similar to the reasons why Mozilla created the MPL (partial copyleft, in contrast with the GPL's strict copyleft, and with the Apache's and MIT's and BSD's and crowd's copycenter/copyfree).
Erlang/OTP is being developed continuously, primarily by a team at Ericsson. They ship one new major release roughly once per year, with a few minor releases in-between.
