SpringSource dm Server has a similar situation, so you may be interested in
the following:
http://www.springsource.com//products/dmserver/licensingfaq

-Ramnivas

On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Wim Deblauwe <[email protected]>wrote:

> There is some information on the EPL on wikipedia:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse_Public_License
>
> What i find most striking is that it is not compatible with the GPL, so as
> I understand it, you cannot build a GPL application or library using
> aspectJ. Can somebody confirm this?
>
> regards,
>
> Wim
>
> 2009/10/5 Andy Clement <[email protected]>
>
> Hi Mike,
>>
>> Unfortunately - I'm not a lawyer either and basically agree with
>> Ramnivas. But I would say the AspectJ FAQ is very overdue an update
>> (and wasn't written by a lawyer originally) - it still references the
>> CPL when we moved to EPL many releases ago.  However, I'd say there is
>> no intention to trick anyone here, and my interpretation is simply
>> that you need to ship aspectjrt.jar as-is (without removing any of
>> it).  We could maybe ask the Eclipse IP team for some guidance, but
>> I've not had to do that before and aspectjrt.jar has been shipped with
>> many products in the past (not just open source projects).
>>
>> Andy
>>
>>
>> 2009/10/2 McSherry, Mike <[email protected]>:
>> > Greetings,
>> >
>> > I'm interested in the license exception noted in the FAQ, which Jacob
>> Bower
>> > also referenced.  If distributing only 'aspectjrt.jar' as part of my
>> > product, I read it as only the warranty disclaimers being applicable.
>> > Referring to the EPL license text, that would be solely the terms noted
>> in
>> > "Section 5: NO WARRANTY"?
>> >
>> > Is that indeed the extent of the terms which are applicable to
>> distributing
>> > ‘aspectjrt.jar’?
>> >
>> > I'd greatly appreciate clarification on this from the project leads,
>> since
>> > I'm not a lawyer either, but I have to work with them.
>> >
>> > --Mike
>> >
>> > Jacob Bower wrote:
>> >
>> > I had got the impression that distribution generally wasn't going to be
>> an
>> > issue.
>> >
>> > However, I'm trying to understand what my obligations are in terms of
>> for
>> > example making the end user view the EPL?
>> >
>> > - Jacob
>> >
>> > 2009/7/13 Ramnivas Laddad <ramni...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > <mailto:ramni...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
>> >
>> >     I am not a lawyer, but I do not think there are any restrictions
>> >
>> >     on redistributing aspectjrt.jar (or any of the the AspectJ jars).
>> >
>> >     For example, aspectjrt.jar is distributed with many SpringSource
>> >
>> >     products (open source as well as commercial).
>> >
>> >     -Ramnivas
>> >
>> >     On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Jacob Bower <ja...@xxxxxxxxxxx
>> >
>> >     <mailto:ja...@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>> >
>> >         Hi,
>> >
>> >         I'm developing a Java library which will be distributed in jar
>> >
>> >         form. In developing this library I have used AspectJ 1.6.5 and
>> >
>> >         the resulting binary will include code woven in by the ajc
>> >
>> >         compiler. To distribute this library I will need to distribute
>> >
>> >         the AspectJ run-time. Users of the library will not need to
>> >
>> >         use ajc to compile their code as all relevant joinpoints are
>> >
>> >         internal to the library.
>> >
>> >         In this case, what are the restrictions on distributing the
>> >
>> >         AspectJ run-time. Can I include the aspectj.jar (or its
>> >
>> >         conents) in my own jar with no notices?
>> >
>> >         I've consulted the AspectJ FAQ on this matter, but I am
>> >
>> >         unclear on how I'm supposed to preserve the warranty
>> >
>> >         disclaimers in the license.
>> >
>> >         Thanks,
>> >
>> >         Jacob
>> >
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