Marvin Humphrey wrote: > On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 04:07:55PM -0500, Robert Muir wrote: > >> Mark, I think my concern is that Sen itself is LGPL ( >> https://sen.dev.java.net/). >> >> this lucene-ja is just a lucene interface to this LGPL library. >> >> I think this dependency might be a problem, but I am not the expert: >> http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-a >> > > I'm not an expert either, but I believe that we can distribute an Apache > licensed interface to an LGPL library, so long as we do not distribute the > library itself and so long as the interface is not a derived work. > > If the IP in the interface is entirely original, then the copyright holder for > the original library has no claim on it and can't stop the interface author > from doing whatever they want with their own material... right? > > Marvin Humphrey > Yeah, we can distribute an original interface to an LGPL lib. We have to make the user download the lib by pointing to it from a web page or doc or a non default part of our build can auto get it if we alert the user of the license of the piece thats being retrieved.
I believe that the LGPL people think that its fine to include with Apache stuff whole hog, but Apache does not agree - so we have to do it that way. -- - Mark http://www.lucidimagination.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
