RE: [OWNERSHIP]OpenOffice 2.0 chooses HSQLDB as embedded database
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My code is mine, you can't have it. Farewell, McKoi. --- On Thu 01/06, Okyere, Emmanuel II < [email protected] > wrote: From: Okyere, Emmanuel II [mailto: [email protected]] To: [email protected] Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 06:02:51 -0500 Subject: RE: OpenOffice 2.0 chooses HSQLDB as embedded database Luigi is correct; there was a long thread on this on /. Sometime back<br>[http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/17/2257224]<br><br>Brad Kuhn's update: "LGPL's S. 6 allows you to make new works that link with<br>the LGPL'ed code, and license them any way you see fit. Only the LGPL'ed<br>code itself must remain Free. Such 'client code' can even be proprietary; it<br>need not be LGPL'ed."<br><br>With McKoi's (GPL) license, however, client code becomes GPLed too.<br><br>- eokyere<br><br>---<br><br>Emmanuel OKYERE II<br>CTO - AKUABA, LLC<br>Phone/Fax: 703.815.4702<br>PGP Key ID: 0xA7FD6168<br>MSN: compubandit<br>AIM: compubndit<br><br>http://www.okyere.org/<br><br>| -----Original Message-----<br>| From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Luigi Bai<br>| Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 10:04 PM<br>| To: [email protected]<br>| Subject: Re: OpenOffice 2.0 c hooses HSQLDB as embedded database<br>| <br>| <br>| [snip]<br>| ><br>| > The LGPL license does not require the product in which the LGPL code is<br>| used<br>| > to be made public, while GPL requires the code to be made public.<br>| > However does using mckoidb.jar mean that the client must be made<br>| available as<br>| > GPL ?<br>| > I don't think so.<br>| > From my point of view does GPL mean that any changes made to the<br>| original code<br>| > must be made public.<br>| > However using the GPL code as a library does not make my code GPL.<br>| > That is my interpretation of GPL.<br>| > If my interpretation is correct there are no obstacles for using McKoi.<br>| ><br>| <br>| Your interpretation of the GPL is not correct:<br>| http://www.fsf.org/licenses/lgpl-java.html<br>| <br>| Only Toby and Diehl and Associates know their intent in licensing, and<br>| they can certainly provide an alternate license to users with OO 2.0.<br>| However, it seems pretty clear that the OO team cannot integrate/ship OO<br>| with McKoi as long as they can only procure/provide McKoi under the GPL.<br>| If you want to integrate McKoi with your application *and distribute it*<br>| then your application must be GPL as well.<br>| <br>| Nothing stops an *end user* from using McKoi with OO (they can integrate<br>| but not distribute), and OO can provide documentation on how to do that;<br>| they just can't distribute McKoi themselves.<br>| <br>| At least that's my understanding. IANAL.<br>| <br>| Luigi Bai<br>| <br>| <br>| ---------------------------------------------------------------<br>| Mckoi SQL Database mailing list http://www.mckoi.com/database/<br>| To unsubscribe, send a message to [email protected]<br><br><br><br><br><br>------------------------------------------------ ---------------<br>Mckoi SQL Database mailing list http://www.mckoi.com/database/<br>To unsubscribe, send a message to [email protected]<br><br> _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! --------------------------------------------------------------- Mckoi SQL Database mailing list http://www.mckoi.com/database/ To unsubscribe, send a message to [email protected]