Re: How are people dealing with the licensing issue?

Reflecting to "How are others getting around this issue"... I guess
most developers just doesn't care, or just don't know that these
licences are incompatible. Also, I don't think restrictive licences
like GPL are often used in the Java world.

Anyway, I happen to plan to change the licence to ASF 2.0 by the end
of summer or early autumn. I don't yet know how that will turn out,
but there's a good chance that it will happen.

-- 
Thanks,
 Daniel Dekany


Thursday, May 9, 2013, 4:56:21 PM, Matthew Copeland wrote:

>
>     I thought I'd ask to see how others are dealing with this
> problem.  I've used freemarker in projects directly and also via
> struts2 and spring-mvc.  I'm looking at doing a project, which uses
> some GPLed libraries, where I'd like to be able to release the
> project beyond my own home, and conform to the GPL, when I do so. 
> I'd also like to leverage my current knowledge.  The FreeMarker
> License is released under a slightly modified Apache 1.1 License
> (modified to swap out the Apache names for The Visigoth Software
> Society and the removal of the requirement about redistribution in
> binary form requirement).  The Apache 1.X License is incompatible
> with the GNU General Public License, which means that I can't take
> something using freemarker, combine it with something using the GPL,
> and then release my combination to anyone else.  (One of the
> improvements of the Apache 2.0 License is compatibility with 
>      How are others getting around this issue?  Do you just not use
> the GPLed libraries?  Is there another template engine people
> recommend to minimize the learning time in the case where they do need to use a GPLed library?
>
> Thanks for any direction you can provide,
>
> Matthew
>
> p.s.  Here are the links to things I mentioned up above.
>
> http://freemarker.sourceforge.net/docs/app_license.html
> http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/License:Apache1.1
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLIncompatibleLicenses
>
>
>


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