Thaks for the clarifications, Brett.
Jules
Brett Porter wrote:
I'm not on the incubator PMC, so this is just my personal
understanding. I may be getting in over my head :)
On 11/9/05, Jules Gosnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
are you saying that these licensing constraints do not apply in the
incubator - that we just dump all our code in there, no matter what,
provided that licensing issues are resolved before promotion out of it ?
Sorry, I was unclear. I don't think I'd recommend this, but it is
possible as code in the incubator is covered by a disclaimer and no
releases can be made until IP and licensing has been cleared.
please clarify 'depend on/include' - by this do you mean 'physically
package together with your binary distribution' or 'import at compile
time, into classes that are shipped in the binary distribution'.
I think both of these constitute a derivative work falling under the
GPL. As far as I know, the only way to combine with GPL applications
is by executing them in a separate process.
LGPL may be
possible, but only if optional and not distributed with the
application.
so it is OK to 'import' LGPL code at compile time, as long as you don't
ship it ?
There is ongoing discussion around this.
so it may not actually be OK :-) ?
right.
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-legal-discuss/200508.mbox/[EMAIL
PROTECTED]
thanks for helping with this.
No problem. I think it would be best to ask these questions of
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and legal-discuss when it comes to specifics.
Cheers,
- Brett
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