On Wednesday 29 January 2003 23:05, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: > - o - > > Please understand that the recursive nature of the GPL license makes it > impossible for any Apache licenced code to link to GPL code because the > GPL doesn't protect the Apache brands (so it wouldn't comply to the > Apache License requirements) and doesn't allow other licenses to further > restrict the freedom the GPL gives. > > For LGPL licensed code, it would seem to be fair to link to it, but > given the nature of the Java language, there is no way to tell where the > 'library' stops and where your program starts. > > To avoid potential legal troubles, the Cocoon project, according to a > ASF-wide policy created by the Apache Licensing Committee, prefers to > avoid hosting and distributing any code that links to LGPL code because > that might force the entire code to be released as LGPL, thus > conflicting with the Apache license requirements of brand protection. > > Also note that moch classes and interfaces don't solve the issue since > they could be considered a derivative work of the LGPL library, thus > would need to be LGPL-ed as well. > > - o - > What do you think?
Well put, and close this until the blocks get to deal with this. Sure the legal aspects will resurface one way or the other. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
