Re: Access library

[andy]

Please move all licensing discussions off this list.  There are more 
appropriate news groups and apache lists
for this.  consequently such discussions invite slashdotting which is a 
form of pure evil.

-Andy
Kais Dukes wrote:
Hi There,
If I may, I would like to understand the difference between LGPL and the
Apache License. Is the Apache License too restrictive for commercial use?
Regards,
Kais Dukes
-----Original Message-----
From: Tim McCune [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 25 March 2005 17:15
To: POI Developers List
Subject: Re: Access library
On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 12:38 +0100, Rainer Klute wrote:
 

Am Donnerstag, den 24.03.2005, 21:57 -0500 schrieb Tim McCune:
   

Our company recently implemented a clean-room, pure Java library for
reading/writing MS Access databases (Access 2000 format) and I just got
the go-ahead to open-source it.  This seems like it might be a nice
complement to the POI project.  Is anyone here interested in the code?
If not, I'm just planning to release it on Sourceforge.  Thanks.
     

This seems to fit greatly into the POI collection of modules to access
horrible data formats - for example as HDBF resp. "Horrible Data Base
Format".
   

Since you guys seemed interested, I ran this by our management, and they
strongly objected to the Apache license.  Our software must be released
under LGPL, so it looks like this code won't be able to be integrated
with POI.  Sorry, and thanks anyway.
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