"Eric Pugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>This is really driving me crazy.. I have tracked threads on general and
>jakarta-pmc mailing lists about this.. And everytime it comes down to "I am
>not a lawyer" and a bunch of FUD. We really need someone from the top of
>Apache to provide direction. I work a lot with hibernate code and can think
>of at least 4 projects that have hibernate code in them (at least as far as
>import statements).
There _is_ a clear statement from the board. And even though we don't
really like it technology-wise, it is sound from a licensing point of
view.
#1 "No LGPL dependencies in code delivered from *.apache.org"
#2 "import <xxx>" where <xxx> is a LGPLed package is already a dependency.
I think that Geir made this clear on [EMAIL PROTECTED]
So every project that does have e.g. Hibernate dependencies in there
must move off-Apache. This holds true for some maven-plugins and it
would also hold true for a possible Hibernate-related
commons-configuration module.
This is not a bad thing IMHO. Apache is mainly about community and the
drive to keep the "sources clean".
Having some modules or code being outside apache.org (e.g. on
SourceForge) shouldn't be a big problem. We add a "links to related
stuff" to the site and everything is fine.
Regards
Henning
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