Hi Carsten, you migth want to take a look at the Apache license policies: http://www.apache.org/legal/3party.html
LGPL is listed as excluded so it may not be used as a dependency of an apache product (as far as I understand). I am not sure why it can´t be used but I guess some lawyer has helped with that policy.
Christian Am 20.01.2012 09:27, schrieb cerker:
Björn, thanks a lot for sharing your camel-hibersap component. I only just started playing around with camel and liked it very much. Now there is a good reason to take a deeper look. It's good to hear that Hibersap helped you with your project. Regarding the license, I think there should be no problems to combine libraries that are under the Apache license and ones under LGPL (at least in their current versions). We initially liked the idea of a copyleft license and LGPL is the one most widely used. After all, I am not a lawyer and the big disadvantage of LGPL is that nobody seems to fully understand it and things are open to interpretation. Anyway, I'll have a talk with some people in my company who have a deeper understanding of OS licenses and we'll rethink the licensing.... If you got any questions feel free to contact me via email or use the Hibersap forums or issue tracker on Sourceforge. Best Regards, Carsten (Founder of the Hibersap project) -
-- Christian Schneider http://www.liquid-reality.de Open Source Architect Talend Application Integration Division http://www.talend.com
