Forwarded message below. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: License Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 14:55:21 +0200 From: "DUMANT Bruno FTRD/DTL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "DUMANT Bruno FTRD/DTL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: France Telecom To: Thomas Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: "MILSTED Kathleen FTRD/DTL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi Thomas, My understanding of the licence (but I am not a lawyer !) is that a new binding factory should be considered a "work that uses the library", thus not necessarily released under LGPL. For these works, I think that using package names outside the org.objectweb scope would be a good practice. In this case, you can simply distribute a standard Jonathan jar file, and your own library as another jar file. Note that you are not obliged to include the Jonathan source code, but you must at least provide it on demand. Best regards, Bruno > Thomas Becker wrote: > > > > Dear developers, > > > > I have a question concerning the license used for Jonathan. The GNU > > Lesser GPL distinguishes between "work based on the library" and > > "work that uses the library". Since Jonathan is a modular ORB framework > > it is possible to easily add new modules, e.g. a new binding factory. > > > > Is this new module considered a modification of the original ORB, > > thus "work based on the library" or is it just using the ORB? Or, in other > > words: when distributing the extended Jonathan is it necessary to include > > the source code of the extensions? At least including the "base" source > > code seems to be mandantory. > > > > Thanks for clarification, > > Thomas. ******************************************************************* Bruno Dumant DTL/ASR france telecom R&D 38-40 rue du g�n�ral Leclerc 92794 Issy Moulineaux Cedex 9 FRANCE mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +33 1 45 29 46 03 fax: +33 1 45 29 66 04 *******************************************************************
