IANAL, but my understanding is that any code that links to GPL-licensed code must be GPL-licensed as well ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License - Criticism). Can anyone confirm/deny in this case?
I can't imagine we'd change Shindig's overall license, so it seems we'd have a few options here: 1. See if David Pashley would be willing to grant us an exception or change Eddie's license. The fact that there's already a GPL exception attached to Eddie (www.davidpashley.com/eddie.html) suggests this isn't likely to happen. The existing exception allows creation of binaries linking to Eddie irrespective their license: not exactly compatible with our goals. 2. Use an alternate underlying feed parsing library such as Rome ( https://rome.dev.java.net/) or Apache Abdera ( http://incubator.apache.org/abdera/). Thoughts? John On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 12:53 AM, Milinda Lakmal Pathirage (JIRA) < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [ > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SHINDIG-60?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12591941#action_12591941] > > Milinda Lakmal Pathirage commented on SHINDIG-60: > ------------------------------------------------- > > Eddie is licensed under GPL. Can Apache project use that. It may raise > license problem in the future. > > > Shindig does not properly support the FEED content type as defined by the > gadgets spec for gadgets.io.MakeRequest > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Key: SHINDIG-60 > > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SHINDIG-60 > > Project: Shindig > > Issue Type: Improvement > > Components: Features (Javascript), Gadget Rendering Server > (Java), Gadget Rendering Server (PHP) > > Reporter: Cassie Doll > > Priority: Critical > > Attachments: io.js.patch, ProxyHandler.java.patch > > > > > > The FEED contentType in gadgets.io.MakeRequest should not return general > json in the same way that the JSON contentType does. It should instead > return a structured object that looks like this: > > http://code.google.com/apis/gadgets/docs/remote-content.html#Fetch_JSON > > -- > This message is automatically generated by JIRA. > - > You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online. > >
