Hey Mike, hope this finds you well. ; o)
You're right, we are not depending on a GPL licensed library. But LGPL (Hibernate) is treated the same way as GPL, so we need to do some work on our side. Best, Markus .::YAGNI likes a DRY KISS::. ---------------------------------------- > From: m...@vorburger.ch > Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 18:57:05 +0000 > Subject: Re: [VOTE] Release Apache Fineract 0.1.2 (incubating) > To: general@incubator.apache.org > > 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 >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
