Well, we do have a GPL header in org.apache.poi.hdgf.LZW4HDGF.
I'm sure that Nick Burch, the person who created this file, will
clarify the situation.
It was a big commit with initial support for Visio files and this GPL
header might be a a copy/paste error.

Regards,
Yegor

> POI 3.0.1 has been released on 5th july, and is distributed since this day.
> In poi-scratchpad-3.0.1-FINAL-20070705.jar, there is a class in GLPv3.
> That means the whole distribution, ie POI 3.0.1 is in GPLv3.

> But as explained here :
> http://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html
> the Apache licence is not compatible with GPL.

> Do a new distribution extracted from the SVN, will be only packaged without
> GPL, or
> will POI be GPL until the end of times ?

> Regards, BenoƮt


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