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

[Mark J. Norton]

I seem to recall that Hibernate is LGPL.  See 
http://www.hibernate.org/license

- Mark

On 11/14/2013 9:09 PM, Anthony Whyte wrote:
> Mark, I am not aware of any LGPL licensed code included in the 
> distribution.  The only GNU licensed library that I am aware of is the 
> dual licensed Apache 2/GPL trimpath library.
>
>
> anthony whyte | its and mlibrary | university of michigan | 
> arwhyte at umich.edu <mailto:arwhyte at umich.edu> | 517-980-0228
>
>
> On Nov 14, 2013, at 8:49 PM, Mark J. Norton wrote:
>
>> Actually, it's LGPL, which isn't nearly as restrictive as the GPL.  I 
>> believe Sakai is using some packages that are LGPL.
>>
>> - Mark Norton
>>
>> On 11/14/2013 8:29 PM, Anthony Whyte wrote:
>>> Edia's skin manager has been suggested for inclusion in Sakai 10. 
>>>  The code is licensed GPL and as such cannot be included in a Sakai 
>>> distribution due to it's strong copy-left provisions.  However 
>>> excellent the tool may be, the suggestion of inclusion is a 
>>> non-starter given its current license.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Anthony
>>>
>>>
>>> https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/edia/skin-manager/trunk/api/src/java/nl/edia/sakai/tool/skinmanager/SkinService.java
>>>
>>> /*
>>>   * Edia Project edia-sakai-skin-manager
>>>   * Copyright (C) 2007 Roland, Edia Educatie Technologie
>>>   *
>>>   * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
>>>   * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
>>>   * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
>>>   * version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
>>>   *
>>>   * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
>>>   * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
>>>   * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
>>>   * Lesser General Public License for more details.
>>>   *
>>>   * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
>>>   * License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
>>>   * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA
>>>   */
>>>
>>> Begin forwarded message:
>>>
>>>> *From: *Steve Swinsburg <steve.swinsburg at gmail.com 
>>>> <mailto:steve.swinsburg at gmail.com>>
>>>> *Date: *November 14, 2013 5:38:36 PM EST
>>>> *To: *Mark Breuker <mbreuker at loi.nl <mailto:mbreuker at loi.nl>>
>>>> *Cc: *sakai-pmc at collab.sakaiproject.org 
>>>> <mailto:sakai-pmc at collab.sakaiproject.org>, Sakai QA 
>>>> <sakai-qa at collab.sakaiproject.org 
>>>> <mailto:sakai-qa at collab.sakaiproject.org>>, Anthony Whyte 
>>>> <arwhyte at umich.edu <mailto:arwhyte at umich.edu>>, Adrian Fish 
>>>> <adrian.r.fish at gmail.com <mailto:adrian.r.fish at gmail.com>>, 
>>>> "cle-release-team at collab.sakaiproject.org 
>>>> <mailto:cle-release-team at collab.sakaiproject.org>" 
>>>> <cle-release-team at collab.sakaiproject.org 
>>>> <mailto:cle-release-team at collab.sakaiproject.org>>, Developers 
>>>> Sakai-Dev <sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org 
>>>> <mailto:sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org>>
>>>> *Subject: **Re: [Building Sakai] [WG: Sakai QA] [cle-release-team] 
>>>> Proposal: towards a releasable trunk for Sakai 10 (and beyond)*
>>>>
>>>> Mark can you work that up into a proposal for inclusion and send it 
>>>> out? Include some background and maybe ask around the lists for 
>>>> some people that are running it in production. Then we can discuss 
>>>> it in a thread of its own and get it voted on.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Steve
>>>>
>>>
>>> Begin forwarded message:
>>>
>>>> *From: *"Berg, Alan" <A.M.Berg at uva.nl <mailto:A.M.Berg at uva.nl>>
>>>> *Date: *November 14, 2013 4:03:20 PM EST
>>>> *To: *Mark Breuker <mbreuker at loi.nl <mailto:mbreuker at loi.nl>>
>>>> *Cc: *Anthony Whyte <arwhyte at umich.edu <mailto:arwhyte at umich.edu>>, 
>>>> Adrian Fish <adrian.r.fish at gmail.com 
>>>> <mailto:adrian.r.fish at gmail.com>>, Sakai QA 
>>>> <sakai-qa at collab.sakaiproject.org 
>>>> <mailto:sakai-qa at collab.sakaiproject.org>>, 
>>>> "sakai-pmc at collab.sakaiproject.org 
>>>> <mailto:sakai-pmc at collab.sakaiproject.org>" 
>>>> <sakai-pmc at collab.sakaiproject.org 
>>>> <mailto:sakai-pmc at collab.sakaiproject.org>>, Developers Sakai-Dev 
>>>> <sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org 
>>>> <mailto:sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org>>, 
>>>> "cle-release-team at collab.sakaiproject.org 
>>>> <mailto:cle-release-team at collab.sakaiproject.org>" 
>>>> <cle-release-team at collab.sakaiproject.org 
>>>> <mailto:cle-release-team at collab.sakaiproject.org>>
>>>> *Subject: **Re: [sakai-pmc] [Building Sakai] [WG: Sakai QA] 
>>>> [cle-release-team] Proposal: towards a releasable trunk for Sakai 
>>>> 10 (and beyond)*
>>>>
>>>> Another excellent EDIA tool, used by many institutions.
>>>> Don't mind QAing if it gets included
>>>
>>> Begin forwarded message:
>>>
>>>> *From: *Mark Breuker <mbreuker at loi.nl <mailto:mbreuker at loi.nl>>
>>>> *Date: *November 14, 2013 3:43:29 PM EST
>>>> *To: *'Anthony Whyte' <arwhyte at umich.edu 
>>>> <mailto:arwhyte at umich.edu>>, Adrian Fish <adrian.r.fish at gmail.com 
>>>> <mailto:adrian.r.fish at gmail.com>>
>>>> *Cc: *Sakai QA <sakai-qa at collab.sakaiproject.org 
>>>> <mailto:sakai-qa at collab.sakaiproject.org>>, 
>>>> "sakai-pmc at collab.sakaiproject.org 
>>>> <mailto:sakai-pmc at collab.sakaiproject.org>" 
>>>> <sakai-pmc at collab.sakaiproject.org 
>>>> <mailto:sakai-pmc at collab.sakaiproject.org>>, Developers Sakai-Dev 
>>>> <sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org 
>>>> <mailto:sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org>>, 
>>>> "cle-release-team at collab.sakaiproject.org 
>>>> <mailto:cle-release-team at collab.sakaiproject.org>" 
>>>> <cle-release-team at collab.sakaiproject.org 
>>>> <mailto:cle-release-team at collab.sakaiproject.org>>
>>>> *Subject: **RE: [Building Sakai] [WG: Sakai QA] [cle-release-team] 
>>>> Proposal: towards a releasable trunk for Sakai 10 (and beyond)*
>>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> May I suggest to include the Skin Manager tool in the main 
>>>> distribution? It has been around for quite some time and makes it 
>>>> much easier to deploy new skins into a running Sakai instance.
>>>>
>>>> https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/SM/Home
>>>>
>>>> Also I think there are quite some institutions running this tool 
>>>> although I don't have any hard evidence. Perhaps people using it 
>>>> can reply to this message ("Say aaai!" :).
>>>>
>>>> The latest version is compatible with Sakai 2.9.x I would be 
>>>> willing to put some effort in making it compatible with Sakai 10.
>>>>
>>>> BTW: what are the criteria for inclusion?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Mark
>>>
>>> anthony whyte | its and mlibrary | university of michigan | 
>>> arwhyte at umich.edu <mailto:arwhyte at umich.edu> | 517-980-0228
>>>
>>>
>>>
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