Hi, > > Does the ASF license restrict redistribution of non-ASF > > licensed code or is it the LGPL that restricts redistribution? > > IANAL, but the situation seems to be as follows: > ASF is a very liberal license that allows to redistribute ASF licensed stuff > under the umbrella of other licenses (also GPL and LGPL) > GPL LGPL are "infectuous", so if we would ship a GPL licensed jar with OJB, > OJB would become GPL as a whole. > This kind of infection would then also apply to users of OJB. > To avoid this kind of license problems there is astrict policy at Apache not > to ship any non ASF licensed stuff with our software packages.
AFAIK, the LGPL isn't "infectuous" as the GPL. if you create a program that consists of a part that is covered by the LGPL and the other parts are under some other license (even closed source), only changes made to the part originally under LGPL must be made available under the LGPL. the rest of the program is unaffected. for that reason the fsf itself does not recommend the use of LGPL: http://www.fsf.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html they even changed the name from "library GPL" to "lesser GPL". so i don't think there is a problem distributing prevlayer with ojb, as long changes to prevlayer stay under the LGPL. Cheers, Michael --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
