On Friday, Sep 26, 2003, at 10:52 Europe/Rome, Upayavira wrote:
Nicolas Toper wrote:
why don't we use hibernate?Because it is LGPLd, and we cannot have LGPL code in our CVS repository.
Someone did mention getting the hibernate guys to change their licence, and IIRC suggested that they were prepared to do so. If someone did get them to adopt a BSD style licence, we would be able to include it in a 'persistence' block, which would be great.
or a hybernate-based implementation of a 'persistent' block behavior can be developped and distributed from another site (cocoondev.org comes to mind).
the block deployer will need to have the ability to connect to multiple block librarians. (one, the official, will be on http://cocoon.apache.org/blocks/) but there could exist more and http://www.cocoondev.org/blocks/ might be another one, distributing components that are not compatible with the distribution policies of the ASF.
Note that the *GPL is reciprocal (aka viral) only when we are talking about 'redistribution'. if the user doesn't redistribute, he is perfectly fine in mixing and matching BSD and GPL code because their incompatibility emerges only as "combined redistribution".
I expect very few users to use block deployment to create something that they later have the need to redistribute combined.
-- Stefano.
