Luca Morandini wrote:
Upayavira wrote:
See:
http://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html
Thanks fo the link, but it referes to GPL, not LGPL.
True.
See what FSF has to say about LGPL:
<<GNU Lesser General Public License, or GNU LGPL for short.
This is a free software license, but not a strong copyleft license, because it permits linking with non-free modules.>>
(http://www.fsf.org/licenses/license-list.html)
But, as Sylvain said:
<<This looks very cool, but... Hibernate is LGPL, and as such cannot go
into an Apache repository :-(>>
(http://archives.real-time.com/pipermail/cocoon-devel/2003-April/012386.html)
I think it's about time for ASF to change its policy towards LGPL.
And I would love to see that resolved. But it needs legal clout and an engagement with FSF to clarify the details, e.g. what exactly does 'linking' mean in the context of Java? Until that has been done - i.e. someone takes on managing that negotiation and clarification, all that can be done really is to assume that the licence is incompatible and that we cannot have LGPL stuff in Apache repositories, however disappointing that may be.
I'm sure Sylvain would be delighted to accept LGPL code into Cocoon were that issue cleared up satisfactorily.
Just my uneducated thoughts.
Regards, Upayavira
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