Hi Martijn, Op woensdag 26-09-2007 om 08:49 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Martijn Dashorst: > I think it is still not possible to include (L)GPL based dependencies > in Apache software: the cannonical list [1] doesn't show GPL v3 as > being acceptible.
Maybe this thread will convince you that the Apache License and LGPLv3 are perfectly mixable without requiring the end result to be released under LGPL: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-legal-discuss/200706.mbox/browser > Furthermore, the *or newer* clause does not GPL v3 > make. Umm... what do you mean? LGPLv3 is not a newer version of LGPLv2.1? > The default gettext translations /are/ IMO GPL, as they are supplied > by gettext. Plain Gettext is GPL, but it's not some process running in the background. It's a collection of completely independent utilities that extract strings from source code into a human editable message catalog, and compile it to a binary format again. It isn't executed during runtime of the localized application. Then there is gettext-commons, that Al Maw linked to. It's a library that makes it easy to retrieve strings from gettext catalogs in Java. It is not GPL but LGPL as pointed out previously. Are you suggesting that translations become a derivative work of a GPL'ed $program simply by virtue of having been touched in memory by said $program? > derivative works, and are hence (L)GPL licensed. If you want us to use > gettext to provide our own translations under the ASL, then why not > continue with the current bundles? The reason called for .po files (instead of .properties bundles) in the first place, is that a lot of gettext-based tools exist for translators to make their task more comfortable. > It is not like we are going to > provide complete translations for all languages. It would certainly be nice to have a good coverage, though! regards, -- Reinout van Schouwen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
