On 19/05/07, Oleg Kalnichevski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 15:45 +0200, Roland Weber wrote:
> Ortwin Glück wrote:
> >
> > Roland Weber wrote:
> >> The closest thing is jCIFS
> >> which has support for LMv2, a subset of NTLMv2. But they are
> >> GPL-licensed and not compatible with the Apache License.
> >
> > Just to be precise, JCIFS is LGLP, not GPL.
>
> Thanks, I don't know why I mixed that up. The FAQ is correct.
>
> > And LGPL is compatible under
> > certain circumstances. We have had this dicussion many times before.
>
> Yes, and whenever Oleg mentioned it recently, he talked
> about setting up a separate project outside of Apache.
>
> cheers,
> Roland
>
Odi, Roland
I am aware we no can make limited use of LGPL licensed cope provided
several conditions are met [1]. I still find them too restrictive, so I
tend to think we might be better off hosting JCIFS dependent code
outside ASF altogether.
Oleg
[1] http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta/Using_LGPL'd_code
http://www.apache.org/legal/3party.html
shows the proposed rules, which don't seem to be particularly
restrictive for LGPL.
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