[Building Sakai] Edia skin manager for Sakai 10 (license incompatibility)

Seth Theriault slt at columbia.edu
Thu Nov 14 18:17:15 PST 2013


On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 8:49 PM, Mark J. Norton
<markjnorton at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Actually, it's LGPL, which isn't nearly as restrictive as the GPL.  I
> believe Sakai is using some packages that are LGPL.

Sakai has only ever included unmodified 3rd-party libraries that use
the LGPL pursuant to:

https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/LIC/LGPL2.1

The Skin Manager is not a 3rd-party library or the like. so my opinion
is that the LGPL is a problem.

Seth



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