My understanding of [0] is that various versions of LGPL are explicitly prohibited from use as a dependency in Apache Foundation projects.
I’m not a lawyer. [0]: https://apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-x On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 7:18 AM 张铎(Duo Zhang) <palomino...@gmail.com> wrote: > HBase itself can not depend on libraries which are licensed under LGPL. A > possible way is to create a new project, which depend on both HBase and the > LGPL library? > > Toshihiro Suzuki <brfrn...@apache.org> 于2019年5月23日周四 下午10:03写道： > > > Hi folks! > > > > I'm building htop in HBASE-11062 now and using Lanterna library to make a > > Unix top like user interface: > > https://github.com/mabe02/lanterna > > > > Lanterna is a Java library allowing you to write easy semi-graphical user > > interfaces in a text-only environment, very similar to the C library > > curses. > > > > However, I found Lanterna library is licensed under the LGPL. > > https://github.com/mabe02/lanterna/blob/master/License.txt > > > > According to the Apache website ( > > http://www.apache.org/legal/3party.html#criteriaandcategories), it looks > > like LGPL License in incompatible with Apache License, but I'm not sure > if > > we should not use libraries licensed under LGPL. > > > > Could anyone advise me on it? > > > > Regards, > > Toshi > > >
