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 > > > > > >
