Re: OpenOffice 2.0 chooses HSQLDB as embedded database

Toby,

Can you please confirm the intentions you or Diehl have with regard to the GPL 
licensing ?
Until now it looked to me I could use McKoi as a database in a non GPL 
product ?
Regards,

-- 
John Zoetebier
Web site: http://www.transparent.co.nz


On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 00:02, Okyere, Emmanuel II wrote:
> Luigi is correct; there was a long thread on this on /. Sometime back
> [http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/17/2257224]
>
> Brad Kuhn's update: "LGPL's S. 6 allows you to make new works that link
> with the LGPL'ed code, and license them any way you see fit. Only the
> LGPL'ed code itself must remain Free. Such 'client code' can even be
> proprietary; it need not be LGPL'ed."
>
> With McKoi's (GPL) license, however, client code becomes GPLed too.
>
> - eokyere
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> | -----Original Message-----
> | From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Luigi Bai
> | Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 10:04 PM
> | To: [email protected]
> | Subject: Re: OpenOffice 2.0 chooses HSQLDB as embedded database
> |
> |
> | [snip]
> |
> | > The LGPL license does not require the product in which the LGPL code is
> |
> | used
> |
> | > to be made public, while GPL requires the code to be made public.
> | > However does using mckoidb.jar mean that the client must be made
> |
> | available as
> |
> | > GPL ?
> | > I don't think so.
> | > From my point of view does GPL mean that any changes made to the
> |
> | original code
> |
> | > must be made public.
> | > However using the GPL code as a library does not make my code GPL.
> | > That is my interpretation of GPL.
> | > If my interpretation is correct there are no obstacles for using McKoi.
> |
> | Your interpretation of the GPL is not correct:
> | http://www.fsf.org/licenses/lgpl-java.html
> |
> | Only Toby and Diehl and Associates know their intent in licensing, and
> | they can certainly provide an alternate license to users with OO 2.0.
> | However, it seems pretty clear that the OO team cannot integrate/ship OO
> | with McKoi as long as they can only procure/provide McKoi under the GPL.
> | If you want to integrate McKoi with your application *and distribute it*
> | then your application must be GPL as well.
> |
> | Nothing stops an *end user* from using McKoi with OO (they can integrate
> | but not distribute), and OO can provide documentation on how to do that;
> | they just can't distribute McKoi themselves.
> |
> | At least that's my understanding. IANAL.
> |
> | Luigi Bai
> |
> |
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