Also we have very similar discussion about it in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-572 Just to be clear about the context of it, it's not a legal requirement of Apache Licence, it's Apache Software Foundation policy, that we should not limit our users in using our software. If the LGPL dependency is "optional", it's fine to add such optional dependency. If it is "required" to run your software, then it is not allowed as it limits the users of ASF software in further redistributing the software in the way they want (this is at least my understanding of it).
On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 12:58 PM JB Onofré <j...@nanthrax.net> wrote: > Hi > > You can take a look on > > https://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html > > Regards > JB > > Le 10 mai 2021 à 12:56, Elliotte Rusty Harold <elh...@ibiblio.org> a > écrit : > > Anyone have a link to the official Apache policy about this? Thanks. > > On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 10:07 AM Jan Lukavský <je...@seznam.cz> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > we are bundling dependencies with LGPL-2.1, according to license header > > in META-INF/maven/org.jboss.modules/jboss-modules/pom.xml. I think is > > might be an issue, already reported here: [1]. I created [2] to track it > > on our side. > > > Jan > > > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-22555 > > > [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-12316 > > > > > -- > Elliotte Rusty Harold > elh...@ibiblio.org > > -- +48 660 796 129
