hi, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
ohhhh,Luca Morandini wrote:Antonio,
thanks for your appreciation.
We'd like to insert it into the next release of Cocoon, but we're not committers :( moreover, JFreeChart is (L)PGL.
In fairness though, I think licensing is not much of a problem, since (L)PGL is, more or less, equivalent to ASL and we could easily
provide some mock classes to prevent breaking the build, even in absence of the JFreeChart JARs.
Unfortunately, this is not the case. Those mock classes will have to be LGPL-ed as well and we won't be able to ship them with our stuff anyway (because of ASF policies)
LGPL was written for C code. Java, being highly dynamic, doesn't really distringuish between what is a library and what is your code. And the FSF likes it to be that way since they don't like java (being a non-free language from their point of view)
One day we'll have cocoon blocks and these problems will be solved but for now, we won't ship xGPL classes from official ASF distributions.
i didn't thought that mocking classes has to be LGPL-ed too.
any way,
as a result of all this discussion, we shall update the contrib.xml
document page.
contrib.xml states:
Source code files must be under the Apache license and must have copyright assigned to the Apache Software Foundation.
Shall we add a further item:
Source code files are not allowed to import (L)GPL-ed licensed
source code, or classes from (L)GPL-ed licensed jars.
as i'm not a laywer i'm not 100% sure if the suggestion above is correct,
but we shall detail the contribution process to help people to understand
why/why not a contribution is legal okay, or must be rejected due to legal considerations.
regards bernhard
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