----- Original Message ----
> From: Todd Lipcon <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Sunday, August 9, 2009 8:01:15 PM
> Subject: Re: PATCH for LICENSE and NOTICE files
>
> On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Chad Walters wrote:
>
> > Doesn't everything in the codebase get the Apache license?
> >
>
> Third-party dependencies can be non-Apache-license as long as they're
> compatible:
>
> http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html
>
> It looks like LGPL is *not* allowed - we should probably look at the
> OCamlMakefile and setup.rb files to see if we need to rewrite them "from
> scratch" - my guess is someone just cped existing ones as templates and
> already rewrote them for Thrift's use case
I wouldn't worry too much about what the policy says regarding the LGPL
in this circumstance. All the LGPL files appear to be build related,
not the actual thrift software. LGPL as a build dependency is something
I'm sure we could ask for permission to use if we need to.
