Re: Hibernate question

2004-08-11 Thread Ugo Cei
Il giorno 11/ago/04, alle 01:37, Stefano Mazzocchi ha scritto: Are they in trouble or are we wrong? Nobody is in trouble (unless the hibernate people go after them, which would be a pretty stupid thing to do anyway) Stupid and counter to what they have publicly stated many times, that their own

Re: Hibernate question

2004-08-11 Thread Ugo Cei
Il giorno 11/ago/04, alle 01:37, Stefano Mazzocchi ha scritto: Are they in trouble or are we wrong? Nobody is in trouble (unless the hibernate people go after them, which would be a pretty stupid thing to do anyway) Stupid and counter to what they have publicly stated many times, that their own

Re: Hibernate question

2004-08-11 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Leszek Gawron wrote: I am suprised of one fact: how can Spring be distributed with ASL 2.0 Note that at this time the stance of the ASF is that the LGPL should be considered tainting when used with the 'import' of java code until such point that the FSF publicly states

Re: Hibernate question

2004-08-11 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Ugo Cei wrote: Stupid and counter to what they have publicly stated many times, that their own interpretation of the LGPL is that it is not viral. However over the years we've not managed to get a public statement (or an updated L-GPL license) which makes clear that

Re: Hibernate question

2004-08-11 Thread Ugo Cei
Il giorno 11/ago/04, alle 09:41, Dirk-Willem van Gulik ha scritto: On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Ugo Cei wrote: Stupid and counter to what they have publicly stated many times, that their own interpretation of the LGPL is that it is not viral. However over the years we've not managed to get a public

Re: Hibernate question

2004-08-11 Thread Sylvain Wallez
Ugo Cei wrote: Il giorno 11/ago/04, alle 01:37, Stefano Mazzocchi ha scritto: Are they in trouble or are we wrong? Nobody is in trouble (unless the hibernate people go after them, which would be a pretty stupid thing to do anyway) Stupid and counter to what they have publicly stated many times,

Re: Hibernate question

2004-08-11 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Wednesday 11 August 2004 16:09, Ugo Cei wrote: I'm aware of this. What I meant is that the Hibernate guys (and not the FSF) have publicly stated that their own interpretation of the license they have attached to their own code is that you can use it from a project that has a different

Re: Hibernate question

2004-08-11 Thread Ugo Cei
Il giorno 11/ago/04, alle 10:34, Niclas Hedhman ha scritto: Probability. One could wonder though, is Spring a trust-worthy liason, legality-wise? Are you running any of your applications on Linux? is Linux a trust-worthy liason, legality-wise, in light of the SCO claims? If you want to be really

Re: Hibernate question

2004-08-11 Thread Steven Noels
On 11 Aug 2004, at 10:34, Niclas Hedhman wrote: IAANAL, I think that Hibernate may be violating the LGPL by assigning their interpretation. LGPLing your product implies certain things, and the FSF have been very elaborate in their wording (so that you and I don't really understand it) to make

Re: Hibernate question

2004-08-11 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Wednesday 11 August 2004 16:45, Ugo Cei wrote: Il giorno 11/ago/04, alle 10:34, Niclas Hedhman ha scritto: Probability. One could wonder though, is Spring a trust-worthy liason, legality-wise? Are you running any of your applications on Linux? is Linux a trust-worthy liason,

Re: Hibernate question

2004-08-11 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Steven Noels wrote: ASF codebase, regardless of what the Hibernate folks state themselves. Unelss they donate a second version of the code under a Software grant and ongoing CLA - but i doubt that it would ever be clean enough for incubation without that whole community

Re: Hibernate question

2004-08-11 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Wednesday 11 August 2004 16:16, Sylvain Wallez wrote: Ugo Cei wrote: Il giorno 11/ago/04, alle 01:37, Stefano Mazzocchi ha scritto: Are they in trouble or are we wrong? Nobody is in trouble (unless the hibernate people go after them, which would be a pretty stupid thing to do anyway)

Re: Hibernate question

2004-08-11 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Wednesday 11 August 2004 17:03, Niclas Hedhman wrote: Somehow I trust the FSF legal counsel more than a set of developers trying to interpret the fairly complex LGPL text. Which, btw, happens to co-incide with the ASF legal counsel's view as well. -- +--//---+ /

Re: Hibernate question

2004-08-11 Thread Gianugo Rabellino
On Aug 11, 2004, at 10:53 AM, Steven Noels wrote: So yes, we must remove Hibernate-related code from what we redistribute from Spring. I'm not even sure this is enough. It is from a purely legal POV, but it might be confusing for users: unless we clearly state that Apache Cocoon is protected by

Re: Hibernate question

2004-08-11 Thread Andrew Thornton
Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Steven Noels wrote: ASF codebase, regardless of what the Hibernate folks state themselves. Unelss they donate a second version of the code under a Software grant and ongoing CLA - but i doubt that it would ever be clean enough for incubation

Re: Hibernate question

2004-08-11 Thread Ugo Cei
Il giorno 11/ago/04, alle 11:18, Gianugo Rabellino ha scritto: I'm not even sure this is enough. It is from a purely legal POV, but it might be confusing for users: unless we clearly state that Apache Cocoon is protected by the AL 2.0 if and only if you use the shipped version of the Spring

Re: Hibernate question

2004-08-11 Thread Ugo Cei
Il giorno 11/ago/04, alle 11:18, Andrew Thornton ha scritto: I'm really not sure how Spring decides which ORM backend is being used. But I would be very surprised if it did it in some hardcoded way. src/org/springframework/orm/hibernate/HibernateTemplate.java: import net.sf.hibernate.Criteria;

Re: Hibernate question

2004-08-11 Thread Sylvain Wallez
Gianugo Rabellino wrote: On Aug 11, 2004, at 10:53 AM, Steven Noels wrote: So yes, we must remove Hibernate-related code from what we redistribute from Spring. I'm not even sure this is enough. It is from a purely legal POV, but it might be confusing for users: unless we clearly state that

Re: Hibernate question

2004-08-11 Thread Steven Noels
On 11 Aug 2004, at 11:18, Gianugo Rabellino wrote: On Aug 11, 2004, at 10:53 AM, Steven Noels wrote: So yes, we must remove Hibernate-related code from what we redistribute from Spring. I'm not even sure this is enough. It is from a purely legal POV, but it might be confusing for users: unless

[OT] thought on license discussions (was: Re: Hibernate question)

2004-08-11 Thread Steven Noels
On 09 Aug 2004, at 21:53, Leszek Gawron wrote: Let's imagine we base cocoon on spring. There was a discussion about including hibernate in cocoon and it failed (licensing). Spring being ASL 2.0 ships with hibernate library, even if not - it contains code that was compiled against hibernate

Re: Hibernate question

2004-08-11 Thread Ugo Cei
Il giorno 11/ago/04, alle 11:48, Steven Noels ha scritto: I reckon we won't be packaging the full Spring dist into Cocoon, no? Just to be on the safe side, I removed spring-aop.jar and aopalliance.jar from src/branches/butterfly/lib, since they are not used at the moment. This leaves

Re: [OT] thought on license discussions (was: Re: Hibernate question)

2004-08-11 Thread Antonio Gallardo
Steven Noels dijo: On 09 Aug 2004, at 21:53, Leszek Gawron wrote: Let's imagine we base cocoon on spring. There was a discussion about including hibernate in cocoon and it failed (licensing). Spring being ASL 2.0 ships with hibernate library, even if not - it contains code that was compiled

Re: Hibernate question

2004-08-11 Thread Gianugo Rabellino
On Aug 11, 2004, at 11:48 AM, Steven Noels wrote: On 11 Aug 2004, at 11:18, Gianugo Rabellino wrote: On Aug 11, 2004, at 10:53 AM, Steven Noels wrote: So yes, we must remove Hibernate-related code from what we redistribute from Spring. I'm not even sure this is enough. It is from a purely legal

Re: Hibernate question

2004-08-11 Thread Sylvain Wallez
Ugo Cei wrote: P.S.: this message imports classes from a library that is covered by the LGPL, so it's probably safe to assume that it is covered by the LGPL as well. If you are redistributing it or quoting it, make sure that you comply with the terms of the license as laid out in

Re: Hibernate question

2004-08-11 Thread Brian McCallister
On Aug 11, 2004, at 5:18 AM, Gianugo Rabellino wrote: * aopalliance/aopalliance.jar - AOP Alliance 1.0 (http://aopalliance.sourceforge.net) Originally released LGPL, I chatted with Rod Johnson about it several months ago and he said he was changing the AOP Alliance license to BSD or ASL.

Re: Hibernate question

2004-08-11 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Ugo Cei wrote: Il giorno 11/ago/04, alle 01:37, Stefano Mazzocchi ha scritto: Are they in trouble or are we wrong? Nobody is in trouble (unless the hibernate people go after them, which would be a pretty stupid thing to do anyway) Stupid and counter to what they have publicly stated many times,

Re: Hibernate question

2004-08-11 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Ugo Cei wrote: Stupid and counter to what they have publicly stated many times, that their own interpretation of the LGPL is that it is not viral. However over the years we've not managed to get a public statement (or an updated L-GPL license)

Re: Hibernate question

2004-08-11 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Niclas Hedhman wrote: The FSF agenda is to drive all development into OSS, by forcing the choice of economical OSS benefits vs costly in-house development. Wrong. This is the OSI agenda, not the FSF one. -- Stefano. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Hibernate question

2004-08-10 Thread Ugo Cei
Il giorno 10/ago/04, alle 04:14, Vadim Gritsenko ha scritto: even if not - it contains code that was compiled against hibernate interfaces. Wouldn't this be an issue? It would not be an issue as long as classes compiled against Hibernate are not included into Spring JAR which is (in this

Re: Hibernate question

2004-08-10 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Leszek Gawron wrote: Let's imagine we base cocoon on spring. There was a discussion about including hibernate in cocoon and it failed (licensing). Spring being ASL 2.0 ships with hibernate library, even if not - it contains code that was compiled against hibernate interfaces. Wouldn't this be

Re: Hibernate question

2004-08-10 Thread Leszek Gawron
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: Leszek Gawron wrote: Let's imagine we base cocoon on spring. There was a discussion about including hibernate in cocoon and it failed (licensing). Spring being ASL 2.0 ships with hibernate library, even if not - it contains code that was compiled against hibernate

Hibernate question

2004-08-09 Thread Leszek Gawron
Let's imagine we base cocoon on spring. There was a discussion about including hibernate in cocoon and it failed (licensing). Spring being ASL 2.0 ships with hibernate library, even if not - it contains code that was compiled against hibernate interfaces. Wouldn't this be an issue? -- Leszek

Re: Hibernate question

2004-08-09 Thread Vadim Gritsenko
Leszek Gawron wrote: Let's imagine we base cocoon on spring. There was a discussion about including hibernate in cocoon and it failed (licensing). Spring being ASL 2.0 ships with hibernate library If it does, it means you have to agree to two licenses in order to use Spring: ASL 2.0 and LGPL