On May 14, 2010, at 5:18 AM, Neil Haughton wrote:
> My apologies if this is 'off topic', but what is the consensus with
> regard to licence and copyright if log4net is used in an application I
> am involved with? The application is not a derived work as described by
> the Apache licence, it just uses log4net to record events during the
> application's use ("the user did this or that", etc). I am not a lawyer
> so the meaning of some of the terms in the Apache licence is a little
> unclear to me.
Sorry can't "simplify" the license here, that would put us in the situation of
giving legal advice or defining an alternative license. For more info and
resources, see http://www.apache.org/legal.
One key piece of information you did not provide was whether you intend to
distribute a log4net.dll (either your own build or one from a release), log4net
source or compile log4net code into your EXE or DLL. If you are doing any of
those things, read section 4 of the ASL and take it step by step. The story
could be different if you are expecting the user to provide their own
log4net.dll.
