Nicolas Toper wrote:why don't we use hibernate?Because it is LGPLd, and we cannot have LGPL code in our CVS repository.
Someone did mention getting the hibernate guys to change their licence, and IIRC suggested that they were prepared to do so. If someone did get them to adopt a BSD style licence, we would be able to include it in a 'persistence' block, which would be great.
This is what Gavin King wrote last June:
> So, unless someone can show some concrete and immediate benefit to the > project by going BSD ... like, for example, that the > LGPL is the only thing keeping Microsoft from bundling Hibernate with > Windows ... I'm not inclined to change anything now. > > You *can* use Hibernate in a commercial, closed-source product. As was > always my intent. If you _modify_ Hibernate and then > redistribute your modifications, you must make those modifications > (only) > available according to the terms of the LGPL. > > If anyone has ANY doubt that their usage is compliant, I am quite > happy to > send them an email stating wether what they are doing complies with > the LGPL > as we are interpreting it. Lawyers take such emails very seriously.
Moreove, now that Hibernate has joined JBoss, I don't think it very likely that Gavin will change the license or even publish it under a dual license.
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