Problems, problems. Which I really hate to bring up as I want Roller to
succeed as an Apache project as much as anyone.
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/roller/trunk/tools/lib/
We have 4 LGPL (ekit, ekit-applet, jazzy, mm.mysql), 2 BCL (mail,
activation) jars in there.
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/roller/trunk/tools/hibernate-3.0/lib/
jta and jdbc-stdext are BCL.
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/roller/trunk/tools/hibernate-3.0/
hibernate is LGPL.
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So at least 5 LGPL jars and 4 BCL jars. As far as I know, we're not meant
to have these in SVN, and that the imports on the LGPL jars are not meant
to be in SVN either.
Now I know that this was well known before Roller joined, so what's the
status of this? What I've read on legal-discuss/board is not the same as
the message we're giving Roller, so I'm confused. On roller-dev, Noel has
said:
"Check with Cliff, but I believe that projects will be given a timeframe
with which to eliminate LGPL dependencies. It isn't a legal (as in viral)
so much as policy issue. We would certainly need appropriate notices, in
addition to the Incubator disclaimer."
As far as I know, that's for the imports not for the inclusion in
distributions/SVN. It's also going through one of its customary
dead-in-the-water periods regarding becoming new policy.
We (roller-dev) will also need the Incubator PMC to create 'appropriate
notices', depending on what you mean by that. [I'm a part of both, so this
isn't me shirking work :) ].
So what's the deal? How do I make a release of Roller, ie) what needs to
be different from a normal release; and how do I explain this to Cliff
without it sounding like we're ignoring the lawyers.
Hen
