Re: [xwiki-devs] XWiki Enterprise 4.1.x GPL vs. LGPL question

When you unzip, e.g., xwiki-enterprise-jetty-hsqldb-4.1.2.zip, it is in the webapps\xwiki\WEB-INF\lib folder

_______________________________________ From: devs-bounces(a)xwiki.org [devs-bounces(a)xwiki.org] on behalf of Vincent Massol [vincent(a)massol.net] Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 5:13 PM To: XWiki Developers Subject: Re: [xwiki-devs] XWiki Enterprise 4.1.x GPL vs. LGPL question Hi Mark, I've just checked and I don't see this jar in our distribution. Could you point me to where you've seen it? Thanks -Vincent On Jul 27, 2012, at 11:07 PM, Mark Wallace wrote: > I noticed that the rhq-pluginAnnotations-3.0.4.jar JAR is used in xwiki-enterprise-jetty-hsqldb-4.1.2. The source code for rhq-pluginAnnotations-3.0.4 [1] uses the GNU General Public License. However, the overall licence for xwiki-enterprise-jetty-hsqldb-4.1.2 is GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE (see xwiki-enterprise-jetty-hsqldb-4.1.2\META-INF\LICENSE file that comes with the distro). > > If the overall distro uses a GPL library, don't the copy left provisions of the GPL require shouldn't that require the whole distro fall under the GPL license? > > > Refs. > [1] http://grepcode.com/file/repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/repositories/re…