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

[Steve Swinsburg]

Edia need to be approached regarding the license. If they want it in the
release they will change the license to be compatible, as an LGPL license
for source code is incompatible with our current practice.

cheers,
Steve




On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Charles Severance <csev at umich.edu> wrote:

> 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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