Hi

LGPL2 is Cat X so it can’t be included unfortunately:

https://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html 
<https://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html>

So, we have to remove this dependency and replace with something else.

Regards
JB

> Le 2 sept. 2021 à 08:25, Alexander Alten <[email protected]> a écrit :
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> According to
> https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/5664/linking-from-lgpl-2-1-software-to-apache-2-0-library/5756#5756
> 
> the linking to LGPL2 libs is not problematic,  the permissive part applies.
> In general the use of other libs, which are not distributed over the
> project, is fine. We just need to make sure that we reference the library
> in the pom.xml file and not distribute them directly.
> BSD license, as well as MIT are compatible.
> 
> Chris, and mentors - any comments here before we start to draft the first
> release?
> 
> Best,
> --alex
> 
> --
> Alexander Alten
> PPMC Apache Wayang
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2021, 23:57 Rodrigo Pardo Meza <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi folks,
>> 
>> @bertty contreras <[email protected]> and I have been working on
>> the first release. To this end:
>> 
>> (1) We checked the maintenance state of the libraries actively used by
>> Wayang. One of them (HPI) has been deleted and Experiments storage
>> functionalities have been incorporated into the code of Wayang in order to
>> extend them.
>> 
>> (2) We checked the licenses of the libraries currently used by Wayang. Not
>> going further to the licenses of the dependencies of these libraries (Only
>> was checked the first level of the dependency tree of Wayang). We found the
>> next observations:
>> 
>> - trove4j <https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/net.sf.trove4j/trove4j> has
>> LGPL 2.1 license
>> - antlr4 <https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.antlr/antlr4-runtime> has
>> BSD license
>> - paranamer
>> <https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.thoughtworks.paranamer/paranamer>
>> has BSD licence. Spark has this dependency as well with runtime scope, if
>> Wayang does the same should be ok?
>> - hsqldb <https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.hsqldb/hsqldb> has BSD
>> license
>> 
>> Someone can help us to find out if our project can use these
>> dependencies; otherwise, does anyone have suggestions of libraries to
>> replace them?
>> 
>> Thanks in advance.
>> 
>> Best regards
>> 

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