On 9/26/07, Reinout van Schouwen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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
Excuse me for not reading a thread of ~40 messages and try to distill whether or not ASL is compatible with GPL3, when the canonical source (the link I provided) for license compatibility for Apache projects doesn't state that GPL3 is safe for inclusion in Apache projects. > > Furthermore, the *or newer* clause does not GPL v3 > > make. > > Umm... what do you mean? LGPLv3 is not a newer version of LGPLv2.1? It means that: 1. Until Apache has an official, documented policy that embraces GPL 3 I don't even want to look at code that is currently (L)GPL 2 licensed 2. Even if Apache says GPL3 is compatible and acceptable, that doesn't mean originally GPL2 licensed code is automatically covered, even if there is a small sentence 'claiming' to be so. > 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. LGPL is just as off limits as the GPL! > 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? If the translations come from a library or archive distributed with said $program then YES! > 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. .po files are not standard Java. -> not many people from the Wicket community will understand them. Properties are: infact they are supported by all major Java IDE's. So why change to something that is not supported by mainstream Java tools, and has a problematic license? The suggestion and intent is good and are appreciated, but IMO it is not going to fly: I see too many traps along the road. Martijn -- Buy Wicket in Action: http://manning.com/dashorst Apache Wicket 1.3.0-beta3 is released Get it now: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/wicket/1.3.0-beta3/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
