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

[Mark J. Norton]

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

LGPL has come up in the past.  My understanding is that legal counsel 
rule it okay as long as we never modified the code.
Still, it would be better if Edia issued a dual license that we could 
live with.

- Mark


On 11/14/2013 9:17 PM, Seth Theriault wrote:
> 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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