That is good to know. I am not a licensing expert. I'm just going off of a prior conversation Stefan Bodewig whom I assume is more knowledgeable than I wrt this issue.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Stefan Bodewig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 6:02 AM Subject: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: jakarta-commons-sandbox/commons-resources success > On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, James Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Stefan Bodewig wrote: > > > >> Please note also that Hibernate's license is LGPL. > > > > I did not realize that. Can we continue to build these with this > > dependency? > > I don't think so. At least you can't do a release with a dependency > like this. > > > (If not, I can always push them back up to the contrib folder) > > If the contrib folder is outside of an ASF CVS or SVN repository. > > Stefan -- James Mitchell Software Engineer / Open Source Evangelist EdgeTech, Inc. 678.910.8017 AIM: jmitchtx ----- Original Message ----- From: "Emmanuel Bourg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jakarta Commons Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 1:03 PM Subject: Re: [configuration] handling exceptions in AbstractConfiguration implementations > James Mitchell wrote: > > Problem with having Hibernate implementations is that the license is > > incompatible with the ASL. So you'll need to keep any incompatible code > > somewhere else....like I do with commons-resources at sf.net. > > AKAIK Hibernate is licensed under the LGPL and is perfectly compatible > with the ASL. Building an HibernateConfiguration doesn't constitue a > modification of Hibernate requiring its distribution under the LGPL. > > Emmanuel Bourg > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
