Hi Rob, If Dave Koelle has the copyright on the whole code, then he is free to (re-)distribute it under as many licenses as needed. In this case, he could also contribute it to the Restlet code base by signing our JCA.
However, there appear to be three authors/contributors, so we would need to get the agreement and JCA of all of them which complicates things a bit. The easiest way to encourage such a class to be used across as many projects as possible is to release it under public domain. For example we already incorporate a Base64 class from Robert Harder: http://www.restlet.org/documentation/1.0/nre/com/noelios/restlet/util/Base64.html http://iharder.sourceforge.net/current/java/base64/ Best regards, Jerome 2007/12/19, Rob Heittman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > What would the original author, Dave Koelle, have to do to avoid the > dependency issue? I think most people who offer their code under LGPL have > a pretty open mind about the licensing they are willing to grant. Is it > possible for an author to contribute something under the Restlet CDDL that > they have released elsewhere under other licenses? > > On 12/19/07, Jerome Louvel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > - as the code is LGPL or GPL we need to add a dependency to NRE and/or > > Restlet API JARs > > > >
