Thanks Mike, As is often the case I managed to learn more from answering incorrectly, than from answering!! And to think all these years I could have been ripping off those generous and capable Apache folk:-)). The good news is that at least I know I'm not breaching any license conditions. -Damian
On 5/28/07, Michael Segel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Derby is a different license - although it is somewhat similar to > LGPL. So you are free to USE the libraries, but not to DERIVE other > work from it. > No! This is not correct. Derby is licensed under the Apache license. Its pretty much open. You can do pretty much anything you want, as long as you attribute Apache somewhere in your code. (You'd have to see the requirements...) But you are free to Derive and re-license the code... This is why IBM likes Apache's licensing.... In theory, you could create a complete knock-off of Derby called Jimbo's DB and as long as you properly attribute Apache/Derby, you're clean. HTH -Mike PS. IANAL, but I spent far too much time with IBM's lawyers. ;-)
