Hi Michael, The example I gave was for GPL. I know that things are different for LGPL.
But still there is a very strict policy at Apache, not to ship any LGPL or GPL stuff. They even rewrote certain libraries (Regexp http://jakarta.apache.org/regexp/index.html id a well known example) only because the original had an LGPL license. We are definitely not allowed to ship a prevayler.jar with a LGPL license from an Apache server. It's no problem with the license, it is a political decision that all APache subprojects projects have to obey to. cheers, Thomas > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Schulze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 2:00 PM > To: OJB Users List > Subject: RE: Prevayler based PB implementation > > > 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] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
