On Jan 16, 2008 8:43 PM, Niall Pemberton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Jan 16, 2008 4:19 PM, Lucas Galfaso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >   I built two implementations of JPA that are able to work with OSGi,
> > these are Hiberate and Glassfish JPA implementations (there are still
> > some issues as there is no easy way to unload any of these
> > implementation based on several issues, but in both cases you are able
> > to use them within an OSGi environment). My question is that both of
> > these projects have non-Apache compatible licences, is there any
> > interest in creating a set of OSGi bundles that would help the easy of
> > the development even when they are not under an Apache licence?
>
> Unfortunately we are still waiting for the draft on 3rd Part Licenses
> to be made official ASF policy - but in the absence of anything else
> its probably the best guide to what can be re-distributed in a release
> here at the ASF:
>    http://www.apache.org/legal/3party.html
>
> So for example Hibernate is LGPL[1] which falls into "Category X:
> Excluded Licenses" so I don't believe its possible to do anything here
> at Apache as it couldn't be released under the Apache License - but
> perhaps you can do it elsewhere using a license compatible with that.
> Not sure about Glassfish license as the legal section on their web
> site is "under construction" - but check their license against the
> above draft policy is my advice - I suspect the same might apply
> though.

Having said all that I just saw this:

http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/felix/trunk/commons/hibernate/

Niall

> Niall
>
> [1] http://www.hibernate.org/263.html#A8
>
>
>
> > Regards,
> >   Lucas
> >
> >
> > On Jan 16, 2008 1:55 PM, Niall Pemberton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I've started a wiki page for Commons to track progress of releasing
> > > OSGi enabled components and notes about any issues here:
> > >
> > > http://wiki.apache.org/commons/CommonsOsgi
> > >
> > > Niall
> > >
> >
>

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