Hi there, in principle, AGPL is not compatible with the EPL, in that you are right, Marcel. However, there are three ways to deal with this (possibly more), two of them doable right now:
1. Don't distribute Neo4j as part of the Eclipse-product distribution and let the user install the Neo4j plugin manually or semi-manually. Not a great way but doable. 2. Get back to me and Neo Technology will figure out a way to provide your project with a free commercial license to Neo4j. This has been done in a number of cases, even with Eclipse-based products. From a legal perspective that is the cleanest solution because then no AGPL is involved at all. 3. Potentially, the Neo4j licensing could be changed in a way similar to the Aptana License, explicitly making an exception to the AGPL for allowing usage with Eclipse based products and projects. This is not something that can be done immediately. For more information on the Aptana approach to things, see http://www.aptana.com/legal/aplgplex and http://www.aptana.com/legal So, would 1 or 2 work for you guys? Cheers, /peter neubauer VP Product Development, Neo Technology GTalk: neubauer.peter Skype peter.neubauer Phone +46 704 106975 LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/neubauer Twitter http://twitter.com/peterneubauer http://www.neo4j.org - Your high performance graph database. http://www.thoughtmade.com - Scandinavia's coolest Bring-a-Thing party. On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 6:35 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I've got the same problem. > m. > > > Marcel Bruch [[email protected]] kirjoitti: >> Hi, >> >> I attended a talk about neo4j and decided to give neo4j a try. However, >> my code is running under EPL which is incompatible to GPLv3 (as far as I >> know) and thus also incompatible to AGPLv3. >> http://www.eclipse.org/legal/eplfaq.php#GPLCOMPATIBLE >> >> >> Thus, my question is: >> Is it possible/allowed to use Neo4j in EPL based projects, e.g, within >> the Eclipse Platform? >> >> Thanks for advice, >> Marcel >> >> -- >> Eclipse Code Recommenders >> http://www.stg.tu-darmstadt.de/research/core/ >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Neo4j mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user >> > > _______________________________________________ > Neo4j mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user > _______________________________________________ Neo4j mailing list [email protected] https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user
