Combining Apache with GPL in one package - Re: libxdoclet-java_1.2.3-2_i386.changes REJECTED

2009-03-26 Thread Florian Grandel
Hi Mike (or anybody else who's got time to explain this to me)! [We are talking about the Java OSS project xdoclet which comes with a core library licensed under GPLv2 but includes a plugin that extends xdoclet's capabilities to support Sun's JDO using one of Sun's Apache 2.0-licensed DTDs.] M

Re: issues with the AGPL

2009-03-26 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Tuesday 24 March 2009 20:32:10 MJ Ray wrote: > Here the scenario becomes impossible IMO - if Z is truly a bad actor, > Z will always either find a way to withhold their source code or > develop on an alternative A's application. AGPL may hinder Z, but > would not prevent it. I hesitate to high

distributing precompiled binaries

2009-03-26 Thread Chow Loong Jin
Hi all, I've recently encountered an issue while packaging remuco (Bug #416379). Remuco is a duplex remote control application (mobile phones <=> media players). The mobile phone portion is written in Java, whereas the portion that runs on the media player computer is written in Python. For the P