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

[Charles Severance]

Seth is right - LGPL is OK for jar files - not for source code.

/Chuck

On Nov 14, 2013, at 9:38 PM, Aaron Zeckoski <azeckoski at unicon.net> wrote:

> I think Seth is right about this. As I understand it, we can only
> include LGPL as long as we don't modify it. Not being able to modify a
> tool is not really a situation we want to get into for core code.
> -AZ
> 
> 
> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 9:17 PM, Seth Theriault <slt at columbia.edu> 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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