What if it's GPL with the classpath exception?
On 26 May 2014 08:16, Ralph Goers <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Sent from my iPad > > On May 26, 2014, at 5:31 AM, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 5:25 PM, Gary Gregory <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Over in Commons VFS we are not adding a pom dep to a jar because it's >> license is not ASF compatible, which is ASF policy from what I understand >> and how it has been explained on the ML. Ii sounds like the same problem >> here. >> >> Gary >> >> >> -------- Original message -------- >> From: Ralph Goers >> Date:05/25/2014 02:26 (GMT-05:00) >> To: Log4J Developers List >> Subject: Re: JMH for log4j microbenchmarks >> >> This is a very good idea. You really don't have a lot to worry about. >> ASF projects can use GPL tools to build or do things like you are >> suggesting. However, we can't ship things that are under the GPL and should >> not commit them to svn. From what you are describing I don't think we would >> be doing that. >> > > From https://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html > > "We avoid GPLv3 software because merely linking to it is considered by the > GPLv3 authors to create a derivative work. We want to honor their license. > Unless GPLv3 licensors relax this interpretation of their own license > regarding linking, our licensing philosophies are fundamentally > incompatible. This is an identical issue for both GPLv2 and GPLv3." > > So if we link to any GPLv2 or GPLv3 in our sources and we ship these > sources, we are creating a derivative work, which we are not allowed to do > because, as the ASF, "We want to honor their license". > > Am I reading this wrong? > > Thank you, > > > Yes, > > See LEGAL-153 where the GPL is not acceptable and then LEGAL-23 and > LEGAL-19 where it is. LEGAL-173 is not closed, but it's use of GPL' d > software seems similar and has an opinion that it is OK. Finally, see > http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#prohibited. The bottom line is > whether it is just a tool or if we have actual code that links to it. My > understanding of it is that there will be no code in svn that references > any GPL library. > > Ralph > -- Matt Sicker <[email protected]>
