Giovanni Azua wrote:
hi,
I was researching a bit alternatives to dojo e.g. YUI or separate
widgets like a tooltip developed and distributed under GPL license and
found some comments from Struts contributors mentioning that because of
those widgets being GPL they could not be considered ...
I am absolutely not an expert in the subject but having a project under
GPL v3 (and researched and read a bit on it) one of the main advantages
of v3 was the major revision that lead to compatibility with the Apache
v2 license projects see
<http://gplv3.fsf.org/wiki/index.php/Compatible_licenses#GPLv3-compatible_licenses>
My question is then, would this mean that if e.g. a widget is
distributed under GPL v3 it could be used and distributed with Struts 2?
Maybe it would be worthwhile to clarify this, as it could mean wider
freedom of choice integrating existing GPL v3 projects with Struts ...
IANAL, but my reading of the FSF license compatibility discussion is
that the ASF license is compatible with a project using GPLv3, *not*
that GPLv3 is compatible with an ASF licensed project like Struts. In
other words, GPL'd projects can now import ASF licensed libraries but
ASF licensed projects still cannot use GPL'd libs.
It *is* possible that LGPLv3 may now be an acceptable license for
dependencies, though. (I haven't looked at it to see if the
objectionable clauses have been revised...)
This has probably been discussed on [EMAIL PROTECTED] already, and that is
the correct place to get an ASF-wide policy change approved if it's
appropriate.
L.
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