On Monday 18 October 2004 04:17, Ugo Cei wrote: > No one has ever demonstrated that doing an "import" on classes that are > under the LGPL obliges you to license your code under the (L)GPL.
The FSF and ASF legal counsel have both said it does. > It even goes against the publicly stated intentions of the Hibernate > developers. Well, the LGPL is written in a way that someone else can sue on the Copyright owner's behalf. I.e. technically Microsoft could sue 'you' for violating the Hibernate LGPL. > I'd use the Apache license without fear in this case (as a > matter of fact, I do). That is of course your perogative, and I am sure I have violated, or potentially violated, the (L)GPL as well at times, but one should be more concerned when a larger community is at stake. Cheers Niclas -- +------//-------------------+ / http://www.bali.ac / / http://niclas.hedhman.org / +------//-------------------+
