On 15 Aug 2009, at 09:01, Graham Leggett wrote:
Hi all,
To clarify how something might be licensed, if an httpd module was
written that was designed to expose a library that was GPL, would that
httpd module need to also be GPL'ed? (I assume yes). Would the writing
of such a module violate any terms of the ASL? (I assume no). Would
the
writing of such a module violate the terms of the GPL? (no idea).
Yes, no, no. But the yes has a caveat: an explicit exception from
the copyright holder on the GPL lib would turn it to a No.
We have plenty of precedent you can google for. In APR we
have this exact situation with MySQL and GDBM. And there's
a related situation with third-party GPL modules that can't be
bundled with HTTPD but can be distributed as separate
rpm/deb/pkg/etc with a dependency on httpd.
--
Nick Kew
