Hello, This thread appears to mix LGPL (Hibernate) and GPL (nothing used in Fineract AFAIK). They are not quite the same of course. It seems like even LGPL really is a problem then?
Just thought it would be worth to be precise here. Regards, Michael On Sun, 22 May 2016, 00:56 Justin Mclean, <jus...@classsoftware.com> wrote: > Hi, > > > Sadly we still have an unwanted dependency bundled and we are using it > in the code. > > That's why we still have the GPL reference in the LICENSE file. > > I can’t see that you have any GPL code bundled in the source release, you > may depend on something that’s GPL license but that's another issue. > > Even that may be OK if it’s an optional dependancy, i.e. it only used to > run tests and/or most users of the software wouldn’t download it then > that’s OK. [1] > > > We were under the impression that we can 'release' incubation releases > with some > > issues and clean them out during the polling. > > That is correct but bundling/depending on GPL licensed software is a bit > more serious. One option is to ask on legal@dicuss and get permission to > make a one off release with a GPL dependancy. > > > [1] Given we use some Hibernate annotations we thought it is best to > bundle the license > > as long as we did not fixed that. > > You only need to put things in license if the code is bundled, I’m not > sure that annotating code would require a mention in license. > > Thanks, > Justin > > 1. http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#optional > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >
