Hi Marcel, Thanks for the reply.
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 12:06 AM, Marcel Offermans < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello Pepijn, > > On Apr 9, 2013, at 22:31 PM, Pepijn Noltes <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The idea is that the work Erik is doing for his assignment should be > > contributed to Apache Celix. > > If I am correct the Coperate CLA [2] which Thales has signed should make > > this possible. > > Yes, legally that is what is needed. > > Obviously in the end, it is up to the Celix community if they want to > accept such a contribution, but it sounds like it is something worthwhile! > > > One option we are looking into is ZeroMQ, which is licensed under the > LGPL. > > If I am reading the Third-Party Licensing Policy correct, this is legal, > if > > we handle this as a optional add-on [3]. Am I correct on this ? > > Actually, that page refers to [4] and as far as I understand, we can not > include anything LGPL in our source tree, so if using ZeroMQ requires us to > use its API and that is LGPL then we cannot do that. > To be honest, this is not clear for me. I would expect that depending on a API, which a user should obtain and is not included in the source distribution is legal for optional functionality. > > And do we find adding optional add-ons with non authorized licences > > acceptable for functionality not part of the core framework? > > Personally I think this should be ok, if it adds a significant > advantages. > > It's a tradeoff (see above). I would prefer to stick with things that are > compatible. > Yes, I wasn't aware that LGPL was this problematic. Knowing that I agree that we should ensure a good alternative which is license compatible. > > Unrelated to Celix, but are you allowed to use LGPL at your company? > General speaking yes, but we have a dedicated board which decides this for every newly added product/version combination. > > Greetings, Marcel > > > > [2] http://www.apache.org/licenses/cla-corporate.txt > > [3] http://www.apache.org/legal/3party.html#options-optional > > [4] http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-x > >
