On Sunday, March 10, 2013, wrote: > Thanks for the insight Ate. > > Rene, I think we should take Ate's suggestion and send an email to > legal-discussion@ (please CC shindig-dev@). If they say it is OK than we > continue the discussion about integrating the patch.
I agree that legal should be consulted if we intent to ship a war or other archive with any neo4j (or other agpl) licensed binaries included. As a first mitigation step, why don't we make this a separate maven module and only ship the source and non-inclusive jar? It should not be a problem to ship a jar and source that only references the neo4j libs as runtime dependencies. > > > On Mar 9, 2013, at 7:56 AM, René Peinl <rene.pe...@hof-university.de> > wrote: > > > Dear Ate, > > thanks for your comments. I already thought about this and asked the > guys from neo technologies. Here is the answer from Peter Neubauer. > > > > in principle (IANAL) it is ok to have ALv2 licensed code binding to GPL > code. In runtime, the user will not be shielded from the GPL core, which > means the runtime will have GPL characteristics when you plug in Neo4j. > That is exactly the intent, and should be ok. The bindings-code is > development-time Apache license, regarding contributions and copyright etc, > so I think this should be ok. > > > > I'm not quite sure if that answers your question. I can further > investigate if necessary. > > Regards > > René > > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > > Von: Ate Douma [mailto:a...@douma.nu] > > Gesendet: Freitag, 8. März 2013 14:18 > > An: dev@shindig.apache.org > > Betreff: Re: Review Request: Alternative database backend based on graph > database neo4j > > > > Just from the peanut gallery, but neo4j is AGPL licensed. > > Normally any database backend access which is abstracted away behind > 'plain' > > JDBC interfaces are allright to use, commercial versions or otherwise > licensed, because the end-user would have the option to choose whatever > (compatible) database they want to use. > > > > However with neo4j this seems different. Even with only optional support > for neo4j, the neo4j integration might require explicit neo4j (Java) APIs > and dependencies? I haven't reviewed the code for this, but if it imports > neo4j APIs then their AGPL license can be too invasive and then possibly > not acceptable for uses within our AL2.0 licensed codebase. > > Or even if that could be allowed, I would make sure to check and ask > (legal-discuss@ etc.) if it would be acceptable from ASF policy POV. > > > > Regards, Ate > > > > On 03/07/2013 07:46 PM, Henry Saputra wrote: > >> This is good news. > >> > >> One immediate comment is about the package name. > >> Would it be possible to put it under org.apache.shindig rather than > >> the de.hofuniversity? > >> > >> This would make the contributions uniform like from other companies > >> and organizations. > >> > >> - Henry > >> > >> > >> 2013/3/6 René Peinl <rene.pe...@hof-university.de> > >> > >>> > >>> ----------------------------------------------------------- > >>> This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: > >>> https://reviews.apache.org/r/9773/ > >>> ----------------------------------------------------------- > >>> > >>> Review request for shindig. > >>> > >>> > >>> Description > >>> ------- > >>> > >>> Review for Shindig-1911 > >>> Alternative database backend based on graph database neo4j Any > >>> comments welcome. We are committed to further improve this. > >>> > >>> > >>> This addresses bug Shindig-1911. > >>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/Shindig-1911 > >>> > >>> > >>> Diffs > >>> ----- > >>> > >>> /trunk/java/neo4j-backend/pom.xml PRE-CREATION > >>> > >>> /trunk/java/neo4j-backend/src/main/java/de/hofuniversity/iisys/graphb > >>> ackend/Constants.java > >>> PRE-CREATION > >>> > >>> /trunk/java/neo4j-backend/src/main/java/de/hofuniversity/iisys/graphb > >>> ackend/GraphAPIModule.java > >>> PRE-CREATION > >>> > >>> /trunk/java/neo4j-backend/src/main/java/de/hofuniversity/iisys/graphb > >>> ackend/GraphConfig.java > >>> PRE-CREATION > >>> > >>> /trunk/java/neo4j-backend/src/main/java/de/hofuniversity/iisys/graphb > >>> ackend/GuiceModule.java > >>> PRE-CREATION > >>> > >>> /trunk/java/neo4j-backend/src/main/java/de/hofuniversity/iisys/graphb > >>> acke
