Apache Toree had a similar issue, and we have discussed this in legal-discuss, and here is the feedback from Jim, VP of Legal
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-legal-discuss/201602.mbox/%3C2A8B931C-1AD6-4230-B2DE-0B33361B3A2B%40jaguNET.com%3E On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 8:46 PM, Greg Stein <gst...@gmail.com> wrote: > Speaking as an IPMC Member, and a Mynewt Mentor … yes, this is fine with a > disclaimer in the release notes. The Incubator process is about tracking > these down, and getting them fixed. Incubation releases are not expected to > be *fully* conformant to all ASF policies, especially if there is a known > path to remedy the issue. For example, I'm pretty sure we've seen > Incubation releases still dependent upon Hibernate, until the podling gets > the work down to make that dependency optional. > > IMO, it is more important to get the podling turning the crank of a > release, to learn these things, and prep the future release processes, than > to clear out that (disclosed!) dependency upon an LGPL library. > > Cheers, > -g > > > On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 9:17 PM, Justin Mclean <justinmcl...@me.com> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Apache Mynewt [1] is moving towards making it’s first release. > > > > We found that one of the libraries we depend on, viper which is MIT > > licensed [2], in turn depends on a library that is LGPLv3 licensed > > (go-yaml) [3]. > > > > It is intended to replace the viper/yaml libraries with ones comparable > > with the Apache license and/or enquire if we can obtain the yaml code > under > > a different license. So this will be fixed in a future incubating > release. > > > > Would it be acceptable to make an incubating release with this LGPL > > dependancy intact? No LGPL code would be contained in the release. > > > > Thanks, > > Justin > > > > 1. http://mynewt.incubator.apache.org > > 2. https://github.com/spf13/viper/blob/master/LICENSE > > 3. https://github.com/go-yaml/yaml/blob/v2/LICENSE > -- Luciano Resende http://people.apache.org/~lresende http://twitter.com/lresende1975 http://lresende.blogspot.com/
