Hi Rafael,
I am no lawyer, so don't take this as an authorative answer, nor as
the official word from Apache; but I would say that if you just
compile against Xerces, you have no obligations (apart not claiming
that you wrote also the Xerces library).
The LICENSE file has to be distributed only if you create a
"Derivative work" (e.g. an XML parser that starts from Xerces and
adds new features; otherwise "for the purposes of this License,
Derivative Works shall not include works that remain separable from,
or merely link (or bind by name) to the interfaces of, the Work and
Derivative Works thereof.")
Hope this helps,
Alberto
At 22.25 17/11/2005 +0000, Rafael Sousa (Ext_Altior) wrote:
Hi all!
I'm using Xerces-C++ on my project. I have the libxerces-c.so.27.0 file
under some directory in a commercial system, and my software uses it. No
changes were made to Apaches' source code.
My question is: What does the Apache License Version 2.0 obliges? Is it
just to distribute the LICENCE file along with the .so file? Does it
suffice to have it in the same directory as the .so file?
Thanks in advance,
Rafael Sousa
