If the license is such a big issue why not just keep this project as contrib
instead of extension, that way the license doesn't really matter.
-Igor
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of 
> Ate Douma
> Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 12:38 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Wicket-user] Integrating FCKeditor
> 
> Nick Heudecker wrote:
> > I'm looking to integrate a JavaScript WYSIWYG editor into Wicket, 
> > similar to DatePicker.  FCKeditor is LGPL, so I don't think 
> there's a 
> > licensing problem.  Any thoughts or advice before I start 
> doing this?
> I have no opinion (yet) on the technical merits of FCKeditor 
> or any other editor.
> But, I'm not in favor of introducing LGPL as Wicket is under 
> the Apache 2.0 license.
> LGPL really cannot be seen as comparable nor compatible to 
> the Apache 2.0 license and in my opinion introducing it now 
> might harm acceptability of Wicket in the end.
> 
> There are other options with more compatible licenses, 
> although I don't know if they match FCKeditor on features and 
> technical quality.
> 
> For one, there is kupu which has a BSD-style license.
> I haven't used or worked with it myself, but I know others 
> have embedded it very successfully in several CMS engines, 
> like Zope, Apache Lenya and recently Apache Graffito which 
> uses it for editing html documents within a JSR-168 compliant portlet.
> 
> If you are interested: http://kupu.oscom.org/ Online docs are 
> available from their subversion repository:
>   http://codespeak.net/svn/kupu/trunk/kupu/doc/
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Ate
> 
> 
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