I can speak to the specific case. The desire is to adopt Qt as the best-choice, most-cross-platform GUI framework for Corinthia on the desktop. The non-commercial, open-source license for Qt is LGPL/GPL. See <http://www.qt.io/download-open-source/>.
As I understand it, a second-thought alternative to full-up dependence on Qt is to make an experimental implementation that employs a wrapper API under which a Qt-specific integration layer is introduced. The Qt integration layer is meant to be optionally replaceable by an alternative one and corresponding framework under the wrapper API. The wrapper API and integration layer for any functionally-equivalent integration/replacement is TBD. A cautionary concern was raised about the prudence of having an optional-replacement of an LGPL dependence rather than an optionally-employable LGPL dependence. No specific proposal or request for any sort of exception is at legal-discuss or the LEGAL JIRA. - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Jochen Theodorou [mailto:blackd...@gmx.org] Sent: Sunday, September 6, 2015 09:23 To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [NOTICE] corinthia PPMC+committer -= dortef, franz, gbg, ianc, jani, louis, pmkelly Am 06.09.2015 04:22, schrieb Dave Fisher: [...] > Also Apache needs a release policy for binaries that would allow the best > UX/UI API for the platform to be used even if it is GPL. If you have > subscribed to legal-discuss the last few months you know why that discussion > was impossible. If that can be worked out then at least it would help other > projects. can you explain the case a bit? Do you link statically? What is the license? bye blackdrag -- Jochen "blackdrag" Theodorou blog: http://blackdragsview.blogspot.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
