Henri Yandell wrote:
Ping. Haven't seen any more opinions. What's next?
Please check your e-mail (different list) from last night around 1800 EST, which has meeting minutes.
Noel's reference above is, I assume, to the discussion between some ASF folks and FSF folks about how to interpret the LGPL. It's not necessarily about fixing "bugs" - it looks like the FSF has ruled out a minor update to the LGPL to clarify things, though it sounded like they're working on a new license for the Classpath project that could be used by other Java libraries.
But, given their usual glacial pace of licensing discussions, there's the parallel path of proposing better language to the Hibernate developers to use in the "exception". For those of you who have recently joined, it was the first message to this list; you can obtain it by sending an email to
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and there's a thread that follows in subsequent messages. The issue here was that Hibernate's current 'exception', at
http://www.hibernate.org/196.html
seems too unclear, so we tossed around some ideas for a rewrite. The last draft we came to was:
Any incorporation of Hibernate under or within another application under any other license will not cause the LGPL to apply to that other application. Modifications to Hibernate, however, must fall under the LGPL. Compilation of the other application and Hibernate (together or separately) is not considered a modification.
Henri suggested templating it so that any project X and license L could be used.
Since we've had a raft of new subscribers since the last time I issued a last call for comments, let me do that one more time. Last call for comments?
Brian
