On 30/1/03 7:58 Paul Hammant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
different subject/ I am not sure of Steffano's assertion that a Cocoon
block can be GPL from the last of that thread.. If it does an import of
org.apache.anything it is in trouble from my understanding of RMS's
typed GPL wisdoms (pasted
Mr RMS then needs to publish something about using LGPL/GPL with Java.
Personally I agree with the need for LGPL for library applications,
however LGPL's wording is phrased in C terminology and I have never seen
anyone offering good legal advice on whether LGPL is usable with Java
properly.
So
Pier,
The end of the thread on cocoon-dev...
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We came to the conclusion (I believe) that we don't _want_ it.
Agree. Much better truly open linkables.
Roughly the whole thread:
There is plenty of it here at Apache, but what is the official status of
LGPL. I am well aware that GPL linkage is verbotten and for good
reason. However GPL is a very different beast.
Given that the FSF has plenty to say about Apache license in conjunction
with the GPL, but little to say
This seems to come up every now and then, so I'm just mentioning what I
remember from the previous times it has come up.
The word from on high is that LGPL is not to be distributed from Apache.
[ie no jars etc]. No legal action has officially been taken due to the
lack of funds to throw away on
