So GWT distribution includes JFreeChart which is LGPL. Problem would be here, Allan, something wrong related to section 4 of the license ?
On 8 avr, 07:15, Ian Petersen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 10:09 PM, Ian Petersen <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Ian Bambury <[email protected]> wrote: > >> If you *don't* release a product under a certain licence, then how can it > >> be > >> possibly be a concern if the product doesn't comply to the licence it isn't > >> released under? > > > I think you've just summarized the irrelevance of this whole thread. > > I'm a little too sarcastic for my own good. You could violate the GPL > (or any license) if you incorporated code from some other project into > GWT. Suppose I released a project under the GPL and somebody took > some code from my project and got it incorporated into GWT. GWT would > probably be unwittingly violating the GPL because it would be a > derivative work of my project and it's not being distributed under the > terms of the GPL. I don't think that was the scenario originally > presented in this thread, though, and I don't think there's any reason > to believe that GWT contains "contraband" code. Also, to contribute > to GWT, you first have to sign a document that says your contributions > are all "unencumbered" from a copyright perspective (and possibly a > patent perspective, too--I forget). > > Ian --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
