On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Raymond Martin <[email protected]> wrote: [...] > > GPL and LGPL are distribution licenses. Therefore, there is only a violation > if things that are compiled, loaded, or linked together in any form (including > the use of jar files) of non-compatible licenses are distributed together. > > Thus, you can have ant-contrib even available from the same location as the > main QtJambi code, just not in the same distributable package. > > Please understand the main issue here is actually not with the Apache license > for ant-contrib it is with the GPL/LGPL for QtJambi. An appropriate version > of GPL(2+/3)/LGPL(?) can avoid these problems altogether with Apache 2 > licensed software or an exception can always be specified by the original > copyright holders to allow previous Apache license software to be combined and > distributed together. > > I agree that these discussions about licenses get out of hand, having > firsthand > experience on other projects. It is very easy to misinterpret their meaning > and actual application. It is best to stick to the demonstrable facts and > steer away from opinions. > > Regards, > > Raymond >
Thank you very much for your answer and experience. They are very much appreciated from my side. It looks like there only remain the technical sides of the matter: * is the community ready to put some more burden on the end users (well, end builders in fact, end users will only see the final product) and add another build requirement? * is the community ready to learn ant-contrib in addition to base ant? Have fun in the meanwhile! Back to work for me, -- Francis Galiegue, [email protected] "It seems obvious [...] that at least some 'business intelligence' tools invest so much intelligence on the business side that they have nothing left for generating SQL queries" (Stéphane Faroult, in "The Art of SQL", ISBN 0-596-00894-5) _______________________________________________ Qt-jambi-interest mailing list [email protected] http://lists.trolltech.com/mailman/listinfo/qt-jambi-interest
