De : "Jacopo Cappellato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > What is the feeling of the developers here about using JFreeChart: > > > > http://www.jfree.org/jfreechart/ > > > > Here is the GNU Lesser General Public Licence license: > > > > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html > > > > that it utilizes. I am writing the screens for an AR collections tool and > > want to present the last 6 to 12 months of sales and a picture (bar chart in > > this case) is worth a thousand words. > > > > Can a commit which uses JFreeChart be accepted? > > Yes, it is acceptable, but, have a look at this page:
Sorry I missed the "Lesser". Besides, I put a link to http://people.apache.org/~rubys/3party.html#principle4 from the librairies link below <<To have a more complete view on licences compatibilty please use this proposed ASF policy : Software License Criteria and Categories>> Jacques > > http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBADMIN/Libraries+Included+in+OFBiz > > because there are some notes about LGPL libraries: > > "We can use, but can not include, libraries licensed with LGPL. The > licensing quirk here is that we can write code that uses the libraries > but can't include (distribute) the libraries themselves. This means that > we have to have the build.xml files out of the box with exclusions for > these source files. For each one we should document which jar files are > needed, where they can be obtained, and which build.xml file(s) need to > be changed to compile the Java files that depend on them." > > Hope it helps, > > Jacopo > > > > > Skip >
