Re: Tricky Ozone Licensing questions (LGPL? or GPL?)

Folks,

My apologies for the second email, but I think I have some 
answers to my question.

If Ozone-db did say that my scenario was not GPL (in 
reference to not adding or not yet adding my changes to the 
distribution) but LGPL and allowed others to do the same, 
there is no conceptual difference between this and not 
informing Ozone-db (i.e GNU community) of the changes at all.

So to conclude, I either:

 1) Got an individual OK from Ozone-db to personally do such
    things

 2) Have Ozone-db sourceforge.net accept me changes

 3) Proved Ozone-db extensions through a site such as 
    sourceforge.net under GPL

- Thomas

---- Original message ----
>Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 20:55:48 -0400
>From: [email protected]  
>Subject: Tricky Ozone Licensing questions (LGPL? or GPL?)   
>To: [email protected] 
>
>Folks,
>
>I know the following questions are directed to Ozone-db's
>owners/maintainers, but I thought someone else would find 
>the answers useful. Here goes.
>
>I understand the licensing agreement that Ozone-db has put 
>forth and I have read the FAQ section about this topic. But 
>I have a situation that might complicate and/or add 
>confusion to its explanation.
>
>What if I want to fix/add work to the Ozone-db Core (that I 
>also want to make public) that has not yet been 
>incorporated/rejected by the Ozone-db sourceforge.net 
>maintainers. Lets also say that I did not make any changes 
>to Ozone-db API class files. Since Ozone-db requires the 
>server side JVM to load both the Ozone-db jar and my API 
>jar, I cannot separate (into two JVMs) the Ozone-db Core 
>from my client API application [In keeping with GPL].
>
>What is the ruling on this? I believe I understand GPL and
>LGPL pretty well. I also know that the final ruling is up to
>the persons(s) who own the code.
>
>Is my only salvation- to lobby my fixes/changes into CVS 
and wait until they hopefully get added?
>
>It is greatly appreciated if the folks in charge could make
>a ruling on this. Viva Ozone!
>
>Best Regards,
>
>- Thomas
>


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