On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 12:52 AM, Jukka Zitting <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi, > > On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 1:02 AM, Lone Wolf <[email protected]> wrote: > > Because I needed, I developed recently a parser so I could extract > metadata > > from wma files, and I would like to contribute with it. > > Nice! > > > But there may be a small problem, I have used jaudiotagger which is LGPL > > licensed. > > So it being a dependency will cause conflicts with the Apache License? > > Yes, that's unfortunately a problem, see > http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-x for details. > > > Or I can contribute with my code even though it depends on jaudiotagger? > > Is there some way to avoid the LGPL dependency? Alternatively, would > the author of jaudiotagger consider relicensing the library to a more > permissive license? > > Avoiding the LGPL dependency it's only possible if I manage to write my own library to read the WMA tags, or if someone else knows of other library that is compatible with the Apache License. Asking the author its an idea but I doublt it is accepted. > Finally, if neither of these options works, you can always make your > code available somewhere else (Github, Google Code, etc.) and we can > instruct people who can use LGPL dependencies to find your code there. > > BR, > > Jukka Zitting > As a last resort that will have to be my option, but as I can see I can license my code with a different license from LGPL? I dont really like that license. Nelson
