Hi Christian, yes, a colleague who is Apache member just explained it to me.
We are discussing about switching to ASL 2.0 with the next version. Regards, Carsten Am 20.01.2012 um 10:36 schrieb Christian Schneider: > Hi Carsten, > > you migth want to take a look at the Apache license policies: > http://www.apache.org/legal/3party.html > > LGPL is listed as excluded so it may not be used as a dependency of an apache > product (as far as I understand). > I am not sure why it can´t be used but I guess some lawyer has helped with > that policy. > > Christian > > > Am 20.01.2012 09:27, schrieb cerker: >> Björn, thanks a lot for sharing your camel-hibersap component. I only just >> started playing around with camel and liked it very much. Now there is a >> good reason to take a deeper look. >> >> It's good to hear that Hibersap helped you with your project. Regarding the >> license, I think there should be no problems to combine libraries that are >> under the Apache license and ones under LGPL (at least in their current >> versions). We initially liked the idea of a copyleft license and LGPL is the >> one most widely used. After all, I am not a lawyer and the big disadvantage >> of LGPL is that nobody seems to fully understand it and things are open to >> interpretation. Anyway, I'll have a talk with some people in my company who >> have a deeper understanding of OS licenses and we'll rethink the >> licensing.... >> >> If you got any questions feel free to contact me via email or use the >> Hibersap forums or issue tracker on Sourceforge. >> >> Best Regards, >> Carsten >> (Founder of the Hibersap project) >> >> - > > -- > Christian Schneider > http://www.liquid-reality.de > > Open Source Architect > Talend Application Integration Division http://www.talend.com >
