It applies to anything licensed under ASF Licenses. Hibernate is probably a good example, the Apache Camel Hibernate components are housed outside ASF, in a 3rd party repo. Since that component is compiled against GPL code it isn't ASF compatible anymore.
On Jan 9, 2014, at 4:14 PM, John D. Ament <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, since there is no compile time dependency on hibernate, is there > actually a licensing issue? > The binary is referenced, but not compiled against in Apache code. > > On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 5:35 PM, Krzysztof Sobkowiak > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi >> >> I have some licensing questions. >> >> I have found following page http://www.apache.org/legal/3party.html which >> defines 3 categories of third party licenses. According to this page LGPL >> v2.1 is category X, but further remark says, the LGPL-v2.1-licensed work can >> be listed as system requirements but can not be included by Apache >> products. I'm not good in licensing but I try to understand it. Is the >> category of LGPL really B (and the page should be corrected) or is the LGP >> category X. In the second case, can we still list Hibernate in Karaf >> features (e.g. using the remark about listing of system requirements)? >> >> Assume following use cases of third-party work usage: >> 1. reference 3rd-party library as (maven) dependency and use the classes in >> ASF code >> 2. reference 3rd-party library as (maven) dependency and use the classes >> only in ASF configuration files (e.g. blueprint.xml) >> 3. include/copy some unmodified 3rd-party code (e.g. some classes) in ASF >> project >> 4. include/copy some 3rd-party code (e.g. some classes) in ASF project and >> modify it >> 5. list some 3rd-party libraries in Karaf features, but not include them as >> binaries in one of the Karaf distributions >> 6. list some 3rd-party libraries in Karaf features, and include them as >> binaries in one of the Karaf distributions in system repository >> >> Could anybody please answer which of above points are allowed for following >> 3rd-party works >> a. category A as the whole category - I assume, all above use cases are >> allowed in this category, is it ok? >> b. category B as the whole category >> c. category X as the whole category >> d. LGPL >> e. GPL >> f. EPL >> >> I have chosen Karaf as sample ASF project, but it could be any other ASF >> project, e.g. ServiceMix or Aries >> >> Do the rules from the page mentioned above apply only for ASF projects or >> for any project licensed under Apache License? >> >> Best regards >> Krzysztof >> >> >> >> On 03.01.2014 11:51, Jean-Baptiste Onofré wrote: >> >> LGPL is category B (not X), so we can reference it but not "include" it: >> it's what we do. >> >> FYI, in Karaf 3.0.0, I've already added a hibernate feature. >> >> Regards >> JB >> >> On 01/03/2014 11:46 AM, Freeman Fang wrote: >> >> Though it's a very useful feature, I'm not sure if we can add it in >> Karaf, as Hibernate is under LGPL license, can we? >> －－－－－－－－－－－－－ >> Freeman(Yue) Fang >> >> Red Hat, Inc. >> FuseSource is now part of Red Hat >> >> >> -- >> Krzysztof Sobkowiak >> >> JEE & OSS Architect | Technical Architect @ Capgemini >> Capgemini | Software Solutions Center | Wroclaw >> e-mail: [email protected] | Twitter: @KSobkowiak
