On 9/13/07, Jim Cushing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A Maven archetype should get you around any license/distribution > issues,
Yes and no. We have to be careful to make it *very* clear to the general public that by utilizing such a prototype they will be creating an application that is not under the Apache License, and any application that the create may be covered by another license. The guiding point is that the general public has an expectation that any software obtained from an ASF project is not encumbered by any license more restrictive than the Apache License. So, yes, we can distribute such a prototype, but we need to warn people about the licensing encumbrance if they use that prototype. A prototype that includes a dependency with a more restrictive license might be fine for an alternative setup, but it wouldt be problematic for anything we were going to call the "standard" setup. Of course, sadly, Hibernate is under the LGPL, which the FSF insists is not compatible with the Apache License <deep-melancholy-sigh/> :( See also: http://people.apache.org/~cliffs/3party.html -Ted. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
