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Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 15:22:01 +0200
From: Emmanuel Lecharny <elecharny@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: RXTX library and ASL
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Ceki Gulcu a �crit :

> Hello,
>
> This is new to me. Can anyone else confirm the statement "until you 
> don't distribute the LGPL libraries, you can depend on it"  ?

I think you can't, as stated in http://wiki.apache.org/old/Licensing :
"...LGPL - Shall *not* use either Java import or C #include. Shall *not* 
/static/ link. ..."

So you can't use Interfaces declared in a LGPL program, it seems.

But this is not clear... The mentionned threadis 100 mails long, and 
full of other considerations.

I would suggest we ask Clifft during ApacheCon in May, so we have a 
clear answer.

Incidentally, Ceki, this raise an issue with your new Logback library. 
Any way for you to switch back to the 'old good' ASL license ?

Emmanuel

>
> Many thanks in advance,
>
> Trustin Lee wrote:
>
>> On 4/19/07, Julien Vermillard <jvermillard@archean.fr> wrote:
>>
>>> Le jeudi 19 avril 2007 � 23:24 +0900, Trustin Lee a �crit :
>>> > Hi community,
>>> >
>>> > Recently, one of the Apache MINA committers merged serial port
>>> > communication code as an optional submodule to the trunk, which 
>>> was in
>>> > the sandbox for a long time.  The code depends on a Java serial port
>>> > communication library called 'RXTX' (http://www.rxtx.org/).
>>> >
>>> > Being a stupid, I thought it *was* licensed  under LGPL, but it is 
>>> now
>>> > licensed under ASL 2.0, but it was not.    It is still licensed under
>>> > LGPL with an exception clause like Hibernate does.
>>> >
>>> > http://users.frii.com/jarvi/rxtx/license.html
>>> >
>>> > I guess it's still prohibited to depend on RXTX even if there's an
>>> > exception clause, even if we use it as a binary form, right?
>>> >
>>> > If so, is there any way other than moving the submodule to other
>>> > hosting site?  (I think there's no other way, but I'm just
>>> > double-checking. ;)
>>> >
>>> > Thanks,
>>> > Trustin
>>>
>>> >From what I understand until you don't distribute the LGPL libraries,
>>> you can depend on it :
>>> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-legal-discuss/200508.mbox/% 
>>>
>>> 3c96D75844-B15A-45E3-BF8D-5CF4517A09E2@apache.org%3e
>>
>>
>> Oops, I missed that thread!  Thanks for clarification, Julien!
>>
>> Trustin
>
>


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