On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 12:08 PM Toshihiro Suzuki <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thank you for the comments, Stack and Josh. > > It looks like the author agreed that they give us special permission to > use Lanterna under Apache 2.0: > https://github.com/mabe02/lanterna/issues/415 Hurray!!!! We can note the exemption in our NOTICES.txt file. Good stuff Toshihiro, S > > > In this case, how to proceed? We need to make a note of this > (maybe in http://hbase.apache.org/license.html)? Or we can just use > the library without any notes? > > Sorry to bother you, but I'm not familiar with license things. > > > On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 1:09 PM Josh Elser <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The only exception to this rule is that if it's an "optional" > > dependency. Meaning, if you could use some other dependency in place of > > the LGPL one, it's OK. That does not apply in this situation :) > > > > Hopefully the author will agree! The demo of your tool on Tuesday was > > quite nice!! > > > > On 5/24/19 8:06 AM, Toshihiro Suzuki wrote: > > > Thank you for your reply, Duo and Nick. > > > > > > I understood that we can't use libraries licensed under LGPL at least > in > > > HBase. > > > Before considering whether I create a new project, I will try to ask > the > > > Lanterna > > > author to change the license of the library to Apache License or MIT. > > > > > > On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 11:57 AM Nick Dimiduk <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > >> My understanding of [0] is that various versions of LGPL are > explicitly > > >> prohibited from use as a dependency in Apache Foundation projects. > > >> > > >> I’m not a lawyer. > > >> > > >> [0]: > > >> https://apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-x > > >> > > >> On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 7:18 AM 张铎(Duo Zhang) <[email protected]> > > >> wrote: > > >> > > >>> HBase itself can not depend on libraries which are licensed under > > LGPL. A > > >>> possible way is to create a new project, which depend on both HBase > and > > >> the > > >>> LGPL library? > > >>> > > >>> Toshihiro Suzuki <[email protected]> 于2019年5月23日周四 下午10:03写道： > > >>> > > >>>> Hi folks! > > >>>> > > >>>> I'm building htop in HBASE-11062 now and using Lanterna library to > > >> make a > > >>>> Unix top like user interface: > > >>>> https://github.com/mabe02/lanterna > > >>>> > > >>>> Lanterna is a Java library allowing you to write easy semi-graphical > > >> user > > >>>> interfaces in a text-only environment, very similar to the C library > > >>>> curses. > > >>>> > > >>>> However, I found Lanterna library is licensed under the LGPL. > > >>>> https://github.com/mabe02/lanterna/blob/master/License.txt > > >>>> > > >>>> According to the Apache website ( > > >>>> http://www.apache.org/legal/3party.html#criteriaandcategories), it > > >> looks > > >>>> like LGPL License in incompatible with Apache License, but I'm not > > sure > > >>> if > > >>>> we should not use libraries licensed under LGPL. > > >>>> > > >>>> Could anyone advise me on it? > > >>>> > > >>>> Regards, > > >>>> Toshi > > >>>> > > >>> > > >> > > > > > >
