Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
On Sep 29, 2004, at 4:56 AM, Vadim Gritsenko wrote:
The problem, AFAIU, is that this Maven's code now has to become LGPL licensed itself, due to LGPL license requirements. And ASF repositories can't contain LGPL code. So the answer is to pull (quickly) this code from Maven, and not to introduce to Slide.
No - LGPL isn't viral unless you make derivative works of the LGPL-ed code itself. Just using an LGPL-ed codebase as a library does not trigger the virality.
According to some opinions, IIRC, "import some.lgpl.stuff;" triggers LGPL virality, I based my comment on this opinion.
The problem is that for java, there are questions about the clarity of the provisions in the license that prevent the virality from taking effect, which is why the ASF doesn't allow LGPLed java usage.
Exactly, the clarity is missing. Any progress on this front will be an improvement.
Vadim
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