Rather than continue in the circle of determining whether or not the PJA toolkit can be used in conjunction with Cocoon (actually Batik) given license incompatibilities I asked the author. Here is the email conversation:
> There has been some discussion on the Cocoon mailing list > (xml.apache.org/cocoon) as to the legality of using the PJA within > Tomcat/Cocoon since PJA is released under the GPL. The GPL > specifically states that use of a library released under the GPL must > be within a GPL'd system. Since Tomcat and Cocoon are released under > the Apache license (which is listed as incompatible by GNU) is using > the PJA toolkit within these applications a violation? I think Apache License is closer to GNU LGPL than GNU GPL, isn't it ? I decided to change PJA license in July 2000 to distribute it under GPL. I didn't know LGPL at that time, and GPL seemed Ok to me (I'm a developer, not a license expert). As I already changed once PJA license, I won't change it again to avoid PJA users to get confused by an unstable license policy. Reading again the page http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html, I don't regret it because one of the interpretation of the spirit of GPL for libraries is for me : "Why would people make money with a proprietary program using a GPL library and not the author of the library ?" In fact, I didn't expect such a success for PJA and nowadays I'm more concerned about people selling products that would require and include PJA to be able to run, than free products like Cocoon. PJA is really a special product as most people use it as a temporary patch (corrected with coming JDK 1.4 headless system) and they need it only at runtime (not at compile time). The thing I would like from PJA users is to mention somewhere on their website that they use eTeks PJA. I hope this will help you. Don't hesitate to ask more questions... You may quote me in Cocoon mailing list if you want to. Regards -- Emmanuel PUYBARET Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.eteks.com Jeremy Michael Crosbie Senior Software Engineer go2.com go2Address: US.CA.IRV.GO2 Tel: (949) 553-0800 x131 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faqs.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
