What a farce. Who cares if it violates the LGPL (besides perhaps RMS)?
GWT is release under the Apache v2.0 License. The two are completely
separate from each other. About the only common heritage they share is
the fact that they're OSI approved.

On Apr 8, 12:18 am, Robert Hanson <iamroberthan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> There is also an about.txt[html] with the GWT distribution.
>
> Here are the notable bits:
>
> | This product includes software developed by:
> |  - The Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/).
> |    - Tomcat (http://tomcat.apache.org/) with modifications
> |    - Tapestry (http://tapestry.apache.org/)
> |  - The Eclipse Foundation (http://www.eclipse.org/).
> |    - Java Development Tools (http://www.eclipse.org/jdt/)
> |    - Standard Widget Toolkit (http://www.eclipse.org/swt/) with 
> modifications
> |  - The JFreeChart project (http://www.jfree.org/jfreechart/)
> |  - The Mozilla Foundation (http://www.mozilla.org/).
> |    - Mozilla 1.7.12 (http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.7.12/)
> |    - Rhino (http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/) with modifications
> |  - The OpenQA Project (http://openqa.org/)
> |    - Selenium-RC (http://selenium-rc.openqa.org/)
> |  - The WebKit Open Source Project (http://www.webkit.org)
>
> So, there is probably some LGPL code in there.  But all of this is
> available in svn isn't it?  Wouldn't that comply with any potential
> "make the source available" rule?
>
> Enough license talk... back to some coding.
>
> Robhttp://roberthanson.org
>
> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 7:54 AM, Miles T. <dupont.nico...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > It says  : "Could not locate 'about.html' in installation
> > directory." :-p
>
> > On 7 avr, 13:10, Miguel Ping <miguel.p...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Just click the 'about' button on the hosted mode browser (the bg
> >> window)
>
> >> On Apr 7, 9:43 am, "Miles T." <dupont.nico...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> > On Apr 6, 10:52 pm, Daniel Berlin <daniel.ber...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> > > On Apr 6, 4:27 pm, allan <allan1...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> > > The LGPL does not require source, it is only one of a myriad of
> >> > > options to comply with it.
>
> >> > I think (but not sure) I've read somewhere a discussion with a FSF guy
> >> > saying that the other options were not appliable to GWT.
> >> > Anyway, why would GWT have to comply with LGPL. Does it use any LGPL
> >> > component ? I looked 
> >> > athttp://code.google.com/intl/en/webtoolkit/terms.html,
> >> > it talks about JFreeChart. Didn't know JFreeChart was conveyed with
> >> > GWT ?!
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