I tend to agree with Ted on this particular point.
Niclas, if you want something more formal than that, I encourage you to file a ticket in LEGAL JIRA [1]. Thanks, Chris [1] http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL From: Ted Dunning <[email protected]> Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, June 4, 2017 at 12:13 AM To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Code generation resulting in GPL or even commercial licensing Legality aside, I wouldn't see a problem with this if there is a warning/report about licensing status of the result of building a project. Regarding legality, I see no difference between your project and a code development tool that allows me too add dependencies that have a variety of licenses. I speak here as just me, not as a lawyer, not as any Apache authority. On Jun 4, 2017 06:29, "Niclas Hedhman" <[email protected]> wrote: Hi, I am working on a code generator, which will ask a bunch of questions, and then generate a project for the user that can be built further upon. Each option the user has, will bring in dependencies, such as a persistence store, out of a selection of many. At the moment, we are restricting this generation to Apache License compatible project outputs, but is there any policy or other restriction that this couldn't generate a project that (if resdistributed) is under GPL, or for that matter generate a project that requires the user to go get a license (say Oracle SQL Server license) elsewhere? IF this is OK, and we decide to move ahead with it, then I would also generate a report detailing the licensing requirements of such project, or that some piece of software needs to be purchased. Polygene is a library to build applications with, not totally unlike Spring Framework. And this code generation is an helper mechanism to get people up and running quickly with their projects, and not required (it is even a new feature, not yet released). Thanks -- Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer http://polygene.apache.org - New Energy for Java
