You cannot. Though the FSF has stated that the Apache interpretation was correct and that importing classes from LGPL jar files in Java does indeed cause the "viral clause" to apply to Java.
Please stop saying "lift the code" or other things that imply violating the copyright. Under no circumstances can any LGPL code be used as it would require us to LGPL our code per section 6 of the LGPL license and the statement I received from the Free Software Foundation's Dave Turner (the man behind [EMAIL PROTECTED]): " Me: > Brett Smith referred me to you regarding a question regarding the Lesser Gnu > Public License (LGPL) in regards to Java. It is the interpretation of most > of the open/free software communities that the use of a "jar" file by a > piece of software linked via a Java "import" statement does not bind the > linking work under the terms of the LGPL. The Apache Software Foundation, > presently takes a more conservative view and thus projects of the ASF are > not allowed to link/distribute LGPL programs into Java projects of the > foundation. DT: This sort of linking falls under section 6 of the LGPL. " In short, Sam was right, I was wrong. -Andy On 7/16/03 4:55 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry I haven't been on the list more, been traveling the last week. At any > rate, Andy, did you ever get a resolution to including the HTMLParser Jar? > > Should I just submit a code change the mimics the code that I need from > HTMLParser, I mean, it is just a long list of values being populated into a > Map! That is all I really want, versus sophisticated translation of > character set logic or something... > > Thanks for your efforts... > eric > -- Andrew C. Oliver http://www.superlinksoftware.com/poi.jsp Custom enhancements and Commercial Implementation for Jakarta POI http://jakarta.apache.org/poi For Java and Excel, Got POI? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
