Re: LGPL Findings

Jacob Kjome <[email protected]> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 00:02:41 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.enhydra.barracuda.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
At 09:08 PM 1/14/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>The bottom line then: LGPL seems perfectly fine (and probably best) for what
>we want it to do - it allows for commercial applications to be built on top
>of Barracuda without infecting them, and yet it requires changes to the
>library to remain in the public domain.

perfect!

>SO...if anyone still has questions or comments, let's here them, but as for
>me, I think I'm +1 on LGPL.

Glad we have some consensus forming :-)

>Special thanks to David Turner of the Free Software Foundation for taking
>time to explain all this to me...

Yes, definitely.  It would be nice if they would publish something like 
this as an official FAQ on LGPL and Java.  I think a lot of Apache people 
might eat their words on their ideas about the LGPL being "viral".

Jake