Hey John! Hows things?
To avoid confusion, the apache license does allow you to cut and paste
as you want, however the GPLv2 does not allow you to put anything in
there .... it's viral and the added code would automatically become
'gpl v2'. Since he isn't the author of shindig, he doesn't have the
right to license it as such, so is effectively barred from using
shindig's code in Joomla. However as he mentioned, the GPLv3 does
allow this
An brief discussion about this can be found here:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=331
With even a specific mention of the GPLv3 and APLv2:
"The FSF has stated explicitly that Apache 2.0 is compatible with
GPLv3. I asked Apache if they could confirm. “Yes,” wrote Justin
Erenkrantz of the Apache Foundation, “and we’re very excited about
this!” He says section 7 is the key to the claim of compatibility
between GPLv3 and the Apache License v2."
oh and as a small ps: Joomla is written in PHP, so my guess is he
doesn't JAR a lot :)
-- Chris
On Jun 13, 2008, at 1:35 AM, John Hjelmstad wrote:
Also, Shindig's license allows
you to copy code into your codebase (raw or as JARs)
