Hey Tim, In general, the ASF doesn't like to present "surprises" to users downstream. The use of a parser that is better, and that users will want to download to provide better accuracy, but that isn't by default included, is one such example to me of a surprise that we don't want to have wired into the product.
There is discussion going on right now on the Apache [email protected] list related to CloudStack right now where they are talking about this. My 2c from a mentor's perspective: stay away from LGPL and try as much as possible to stay with Category A ASF compatible licenses from the legal resolved page. If there is something better that's LGPL, either rewrite it here (if possible), or convince the authors of that library to relicense their product (has worked sometimes in the past), or think of another creative solution that doesn't involve LGPL :) Cheers, Chris On Aug 1, 2012, at 4:01 AM, Miller, Timothy wrote: > Hi all, > There was some chatter last week about resources potentially being downloaded > via maven for license compatibility reasons. Just wondering if that brings > about the possibility of using external libraries that are not > apache-licensed that would also be auto-downloaded under certain maven build > commands. Specifically I was thinking of the GPL-licensed berkeley parser > which I've used to get significantly higher accuracy than the opennlp parser > we currently wrap in our constituency parser module. > Thanks > Tim Miller ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Senior Computer Scientist NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 Email: [email protected] WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
