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Ross Gardler-2 on
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Dev-ASF-JIRA-tp166739p166751.html
Jacopo Cappellato wrote:
> Hi Martin,
>
> are you saying that, while in Incubator, we could also put LGPLed jars
> in the SVN repository, if we don't make an OFBiz release?
>
> This would be interesting for the very first days of incubation.
Hello OfBiz devs. Let me give a two line intro before addressing the above:
I am an ASF member who has been drawn to your project for two reasons:
1) I've been evaluating OfBiz for use in an internal project
2) Whilst doing my evaluation the OfBiz proposal landed in the ASF incubator
It looks like we will be using OfBiz at some point in the future, going
into the incubator is likely to be the deciding factor. I therefore
figured I should dive in early and see if I could help with the move to
the ASF in some small way.
Now, to the above question regarding LGPL code. There is always allot of
confusion about this kind of thing. The ASF have a mailing list
specifically for answering such queries (
[hidden email]), but
you should try and answer them within your own communities/PMC first.
Now, I am no lawyer and I am a newcomer to the incubator, but I can pass
on my own (potentially flawed) understanding of the situation:
My answer is that *no* code that is under an incompatible license (to
ASL2) can be placed in any ASF repository (including incubator). This
applies to source code and to binaries.
The reason being that devs and users assume that anything that comes out
of the ASF repositories is compatible with the ASL2 and they will often
fail to check the license terms of all materials - trusting to the
oversight of the ASF.
Therefore, my take is that you can have dependencies on LGPL stuff. But
the LGPL code must be downloaded separately, not from the ASF repos.
I hope this helps.
Ross
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