Right, FWIW in my previous company we disallowed LGPL libraries because of
the clause that explicitly allows reverse engineering to substitute
different versions of the library. Of course, it's unlikely that anyone
would ever do this but it would be a support nightmare if they did, so it
was just easier to avoid the problem altogether. Rightly or wrongly a lot
of companies think this way so LGPL can affect commercial adoption
(assuming you're interested in that, of course).


On 6 June 2013 03:46, David Powell <djpow...@djpowell.net> wrote:

> Personally, I think there is too much guesswork involved in understanding
> what the LGPL means re Java.
>
> For example, from http://jtds.sourceforge.net/license.html, a Java
> library:
>
> Using jTDS is considered to be dynamic linking; hence our interpretation
>> of the LGPL is that the use of the unmodified jTDS source or binary does
>> not affect the license of your application code.
>
>
> The authors were kind enough to say what their interpretation of the
> license is - most LGPL libraries don't; but what if you distribute an LGPL
> library with an application as an uberjar - that may well be outside of
> what is permitted - I don't know.  Is it outside the spirit of the 6b) of
> the LGPL, which seems to be intended to allow the user to easily swap in
> implementations.
>
> It just seems easier to stick to EPL, especially if you want to allow
> commercial use of the library.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 2:48 PM, John Gabriele <jmg3...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday, June 4, 2013 4:24:49 PM UTC-4, Gary Trakhman wrote:
>>>
>>> Just fyi, most clojure libs are published under EPL or Apache licenses,
>>> of course the choice is up to you :-).  GPL has some restrictions that
>>> would prevent the lib from being used in many projects.
>>>
>>> from the EPL wikipedia page: 'The EPL 1.0 is not 
>>> compatible<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/License_compatibility> with
>>> the GPL, and a work created by combining a work licensed under the GPL with
>>> a work licensed under the EPL cannot be lawfully distributed.'
>>>
>>>
>> LGPL is also a fine choice for Clojure libs.
>>
>> -- John
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