[sakai2-tcc] [WG: Licensing] Sakai 2.9 Planning in Confluence

[csev]

Barnaby,

Thanks for the quick answer.

I am quite confident that we are not even including the LGPL source code  and simply including a binary artifact that is unmodified and not something that is expected to be modified.

/Chuck

On May 30, 2011, at 12:09 PM, Barnaby Gibson wrote:

> 
> Hi Chuck,
> 
> Whether we can use software that is subject to the LGPL depends on how it is being used -- we analyze it on a case by case basis, and generally try to minimize use of LGPL software.
> 
> Generally the issue is making sure that we are using the LGPL software as a more or less standalone module, and in a way that preserves freedom to modify the LGPL code, even for people who might be using a version of Sakai that has customizations or optimizations that are not open source.  The more LGPL code there is, and again depending on how it is used, you can create a situation where the LGPL terms start being "viral" even though we're talking about the LGPL here, not the GPL.
> 
> Do you want to set up a time to talk on the phone?
> 
> Regards,
> Barnaby
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
> On May 30, 2011, at 5:20 AM, "csev" <csev at umich.edu> wrote:
> 
>> Dear License WG,
>> 
>> We now have JGroups in the trunk for Sakai 2.9.  It is LGPL - we believe this is OK - but wanted to give a shout out to our licensing peeps.
>> 
>> /Chuck
>> 
>> On May 30, 2011, at 7:36 AM, Aaron Zeckoski wrote:
>> 
>>> That's my understanding. LGPL is fine as long as you make no
>>> modifications to the LGPL package (which means no changing or adding
>>> any of the files distributed with it I believe).
>>> 
>>> -AZ
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 11:33 PM, csev <csev at umich.edu> wrote:
>>>> Isn't Hibernate LGPL as well?
>>>> As long as we don't tough the library, LGPL should be OK, right?
>>>> 
>>>> /Chuck
>>>> On May 29, 2011, at 10:16 PM, Steve Swinsburg wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> FYI, JGroups is LGPL, not sure if that is an issue:
>>>> http://www.jgroups.org/license.html
>>>> 
>>>> cheers,
>>>> Steve
>>>> 
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