Re: component using LGPL library

2011-10-22 Thread Claus Ibsen
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 9:05 PM, Donald Whytock wrote: > Hi all... > > I'm considering writing a component that uses the google-voice-java > library to send and receive SMS messages via Google Voice. > > The google-voice-java library is licensed as LGPL.  Is a component > that uses it a permitted

Re: component using LGPL library

2011-10-21 Thread Richard Kettelerij
Hi Donald, Unfortunately projects at the Apache Software Foundation aren't allowed to depend on third party LGPL components. See http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-x for details. So your component can't be hosted at apache.org. However we can host it in the Camel Extra project htt

component using LGPL library

2011-10-21 Thread Donald Whytock
Hi all... I'm considering writing a component that uses the google-voice-java library to send and receive SMS messages via Google Voice. The google-voice-java library is licensed as LGPL. Is a component that uses it a permitted contribution? Can it contain a copy of the library? Don