On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 2:40 PM, "Gregor Mückl" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am not a lawyer, but I'll give it a try. The catch is in the definition of > "Source Code" in the LGPL. Quote: > > "Source code" for a work means the preferred form of the work for making > modifications to it. For a library, complete source code means all the source > code for all modules it contains, plus any associated interface definition > files, plus the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the > library. > > Build scripts are part of the source code by this definition. Including > ant-contrib.jar would make this file part of the build scripts and therefore > part of the Qt Jambi source. Weird, but it says so. > [...] > > Now the much more interesting question is: if ant-contrib is only a build > time dependency that is not included in the source code of Qt Jambi, is (a) > the distributed source code in violation of the requirement of being the > "full Source Code" according to the LGPL and (b) would this need to change > the license of Qt Jambi also? > > Francis, the FSF gives quite good (and reasonable) advice on the > interpretation of their licenses in matters like this. Maybe you could ask > them for clarification? A simple email is enough. >
Do not forget that the intent is not to redistribute ant-contrib. There is no intent to modify it either. In essence, it means that it's up to each individual to download it, adapt the build environment, and comply with the Apache license (version 1.1, since that's still the official license). See http://ant-contrib.sourceforge.net/tasks/LICENSE.txt: qt-jambi is not a derived work from ant-contrib (it only uses the final product), and provided the binary jar _is_ included (which I don't intend to do anyway), the only requirement seems to be an inclusion of the copyright notice. I have mailed [email protected] and will mail the FSF about the matter. As Eskil says, this kind of debate turns out to be quite expensive indeed :p -- 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
