My understanding is this does not affect the licensing of XWiki any more than the GPL packages in Debian affect the LGPL packages because they are on the same installer disk. The LGPL originated from the C compiling and linking mechanism where a header file was prepended to the .c file in the compiling cycle, making what was arguably a derived work. While the GPL is fuzzy about it, the LGPL explicitly says this is ok. I am not aware of any claims arising from using GPL licensed .jar files being included in a .zip distribution. The LGPL license file only applies to the XWiki codebase itself, we use libraries which are licensed under a range of different licenses including Apache and BSD like licenses. That said, we do not use GPL'd libraries so this is something which will have to be fixed, thanks for letting us know.
Caleb On 07/30/2012 04:53 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote: > On 07/27/2012 10:59 PM, Vincent Massol wrote: >> >> On Jul 28, 2012, at 4:53 AM, Mark Wallace wrote: >> >>> When you unzip, e.g., xwiki-enterprise-jetty-hsqldb-4.1.2.zip, it is in the >>> webapps\xwiki\WEB-INF\lib folder >> >> ok I'll try. I have 4.1.3 and it's not there for me. > > It is in a 4.2-SNAPSHOT that I have locally. > > I agree that this is wrong and this jar should be removed. > > I traced to see where it comes from, and it's a dependency used by > Infinispan, which means that Infinispan is in the wrong here. I created > https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-2179 and I hope that it will be > addressed soon. > >> Thanks >> -Vincent >> >>> _______________________________________ >>> From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Vincent >>> Massol [[email protected]] >>> Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 5:13 PM >>> To: XWiki Developers >>> Subject: Re: [xwiki-devs] XWiki Enterprise 4.1.x GPL vs. LGPL question >>> >>> Hi Mark, >>> >>> I've just checked and I don't see this jar in our distribution. >>> >>> Could you point me to where you've seen it? >>> >>> Thanks >>> -Vincent >>> >>> On Jul 27, 2012, at 11:07 PM, Mark Wallace wrote: >>> >>>> I noticed that the rhq-pluginAnnotations-3.0.4.jar JAR is used in >>>> xwiki-enterprise-jetty-hsqldb-4.1.2. The source code for >>>> rhq-pluginAnnotations-3.0.4 [1] uses the GNU General Public License. >>>> However, the overall licence for xwiki-enterprise-jetty-hsqldb-4.1.2 is >>>> GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE (see >>>> xwiki-enterprise-jetty-hsqldb-4.1.2\META-INF\LICENSE file that comes with >>>> the distro). >>>> >>>> If the overall distro uses a GPL library, don't the copy left provisions >>>> of the GPL require shouldn't that require the whole distro fall under the >>>> GPL license? >>>> >>>> >>>> Refs. >>>> [1] >>>> http://grepcode.com/file/repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/repositories/releases/org.rhq.helpers/rhq-pluginAnnotations/3.0.4/org/rhq/helpers/pluginAnnotations/agent/Operation.java?av=f > > > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
