On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Eskil Abrahamsen Blomfeldt <[email protected]> wrote: > Francis Galiegue skrev: >> >> As I understand it, the community-port-to-4.6 branch is dedicated to >> the community. I therefore propose that the next-to-come >> qt-jambi-4.6.x depend on ant-contrib for the build process. Should the >> consensus turn out to be in favor of integrating it, I stress out the >> fact that I'll start integrating ant-contrib ONLY when I'm done with >> the build branch. >> > > If you are actually considering physically integrating the > ant-contrib.jar-file like before, please bear in mind the consequences for > the licensing of Qt Jambi. Ant-contrib is licensed under the Apache license, > which I believe is a GPL3-compatible license, but incompatible with LGPL and > GPL2. I may be wrong about this, but as far as I could see, this is the > case. Any user of Qt Jambi who currently depends on either LGPL or GPL2 will > thus not be able to use this branch of Qt Jambi, as the new branch would > have to be licensed under GPL version 3. >
No, not at all. I simply intend to add ant-contrib as an external build dependency, that's all. Yes, that would require updating the documentation, but imho that's a small price to pay for the convenience of maintaining qt-jambi itself. > The bottom line is that commercial users of Qt Jambi will not be able to > upgrade to the community version and therefore not to Qt 4.6, which I would > consider a significant downside. > IANAL, even less than you, most probably so, which is why I suggest adding it as a build dependency, not bundle it with qt-jambi sources. > As long as ant-contrib is available on all supported platforms, I don't mind > adding a dependency on it for the community version, but I would vote > against adding the actual .jar-file to the repository. > It probably is (it is pure Java, after all, it has no OS specific component). Hence my proposal. -- Francis Galiegue, [email protected] "It seems obvious [...] that at least some 'business intelligence' tools invest so much intelligence on the business side that they have nothing left for generating SQL queries" (Stéphane Faroult, in "The Art of SQL", ISBN 0-596-00894-5) _______________________________________________ Qt-jambi-interest mailing list [email protected] http://lists.trolltech.com/mailman/listinfo/qt-jambi-interest
