Great explanation... Are you sure you are not a lawyer? ;-) Satheesh
Kevin Foster wrote: > Vikas wrote: > > > It has been made available under LGPL > <http://sourceforge.net/projects/daffodildb/>http://sourceforge.net/projects/daffodildb/ > > > > There seem to be differing opinions on whether LGPL can safely be > distributed with other license types. Here's what Apache says about > including LGPL code in Apache projects for example: > > http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta/Using_20LGPL_27d_20code > > (I've been reading the Lawrence Rosen book Open Source Licensing > mentioned on this page. I'd recommend it as required reading for > anyone mixing and matching software licenses.) > > I personally know of at least two large companies whose lawyers won't > let their developers bundle LGPL code into regular commercial product > distributions due to open questions in this regard. Apache License, > EPL, CPL, BSD, and similar are all fine, but GPL and even LGPL are > potentially incompatible with commercial software offerings. > > But I'm not a lawyer, so check with yours before deciding anything. > > -Kevin > > >
