Looking for clarification here. Our projects can depend on LGPL'ed dependencies, right? Here is my understanding...
LGPL is not GPL, so using it as a library in our project should not force the license on our software - i.e. we can still release under the Apache License. We do need to include a NOTICE file mentioning the dependency and its license as part of the release - that's an Apache standard, right? If this is just a test dependency as @jbertram mentioned, then it's really not a problem and doesn't require and NOTICE. Art On Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 1:17 PM Justin Bertram <jbert...@apache.org> wrote: > The file you referenced [1] is just a test and isn't distributed so it's > not in the jar of our dependency. My guess is that it was a mistake and > they can send a commit to re-license the file with ASL 2. > > I still don't see a problem, but it's worth checking all the files. > > > Justin > > [1] > > https://github.com/wildfly/wildfly-common/blob/d8397e1174a193aaab5db510da514f6039be6742/src/test/java/org/wildfly/common/string/CompositeCharSequenceTestCase.java > > On Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 3:12 PM Michael André Pearce > <michael.andre.pea...@me.com.invalid> wrote: > > > I haven’t checked all the files, i don’t have time. But simply the parent > > wildfly project is LPGL and I’ve found one file with LGPL, this is a > > concern, and going forwards this is risky as they may move more files > from > > Wildfly project into it. > > > > > On 6 Jun 2019, at 21:10, Michael André Pearce < > > michael.andre.pea...@me.com> wrote: > > > > > > There is a class in there which was taken from wildfly but keeps its > gnu > > license (as it has to) > > > > > > https://github.com/wildfly/wildfly-common/blob/d8397e1174a193aaab5db510da514f6039be6742/src/test/java/org/wildfly/common/string/CompositeCharSequenceTestCase.java > > > > > > As such even so they declare it Apache, it isn’t because inside is code > > that is LPGL from wildly. > > > > > >> On 6 Jun 2019, at 21:06, Justin Bertram <jbert...@apache.org> wrote: > > >> > > >> This was the dependency added: > > >> > > >> <dependency> > > >> <groupId>org.wildfly.common</groupId> > > >> <artifactId>wildfly-common</artifactId> > > >> </dependency> > > >> > > >> Wildfly Common is ASL 2. See > > >> https://github.com/wildfly/wildfly-common/blob/master/LICENSE. > > >> > > >> I could see your point if a dependency on org.wildfly:wildfly-parent > was > > >> added as that is LGPL as you noted. > > >> > > >> At this point I don't see a problem. > > >> > > >> > > >> Justin > > >> > > >> On Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 3:02 PM Michael André Pearce > > >> <michael.andre.pea...@me.com.invalid> wrote: > > >> > > >>> Wildfly project: > > >>> > > >>> https://github.com/wildfly/wildfly/blob/master/LICENSE.txt > > >>> > > >>> > > >>>> On 6 Jun 2019, at 21:01, Justin Bertram <jbert...@apache.org> > wrote: > > >>>> > > >>>> Are you sure about that? Wildfly Common is ASL 2. See > > >>>> https://github.com/wildfly/wildfly-common. > > >>>> > > >>>> > > >>>> Justin > > >>>> > > >>>> On Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 2:47 PM Michael André Pearce > > >>>> <michael.andre.pea...@me.com.invalid> wrote: > > >>>> > > >>>>> http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html > > >>>>> > > >>>>> It’s a category x, in my understanding. > > >>>>> > > >>>>>> On 6 Jun 2019, at 20:46, Michael André Pearce < > > >>>>> michael.andre.pea...@me.com> wrote: > > >>>>>> > > >>>>>> Hi All, > > >>>>>> > > >>>>>> It seems https://github.com/apache/activemq-artemis/pull/2661 > > >>>>> introduced an LPGL dependency into ActiveMQ Artemis. > > >>>>>> > > >>>>>> Can we please revert this. > > >>>>>> > > >>>>>> Thanks > > >>>>>> Mike > > >>>>> > > >>>>> > > >>> > > >>> > > > > > > > >
