Recently there has been a thread on xindice-users about incorporating XQuery using the Qexo engine, based on Kawa. Qexo and Kawa are ruled by the Kawa license (http://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/License.html) which brings an interesting variation on the GPL:

<quote>
These classes are free software.  You can use and re-distribute a class
without restriction (in source or binary form) as long as you use a
version that has not been modified in any way from a version released
by Per Bothner, Red Hat inc, or the Free Software Foundation.

You may make and distribute a modified version, provided you follow
the terms of the GNU General Public License; either version 2,
or (at your option) any later version.
</quote>

The question is: is that enough to defeat GPL's virality? I'm starting to think that it might well be the case: as long as you don't modify Kawa or Qexo, those classes would be used just like any Sun classes so if it's OK to include a Sun jar it might be OK to include even Kawa/Qexo. Still, they are shipping even a copy of the GPL2 license with the distribution, so I'm not sure it would be enough.

Thoughts?

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Gianugo Rabellino
Pro-netics s.r.l.
http://www.pro-netics.com


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