31 Jul
2012
31 Jul
'12
12:35 a.m.
My understanding is this does not affect the licensing of XWiki any more than the GPL
packages in Debian affect the LGPL packages because they are on the same installer disk.
The LGPL originated from the C compiling and linking mechanism where a header file was
prepended to the .c file in the compiling cycle, making what was arguably a derived work.
While the GPL is fuzzy about it, the LGPL explicitly says this is ok.
I am not aware of any claims arising from using GPL licensed .jar files being included in
a .zip distribution.
The LGPL license file only applies to the XWiki codebase itself, we use libraries which
are licensed under a range of different licenses including Apache and BSD like licenses.
That said, we do not use GPL'd libraries so this is something which will have to be
fixed, thanks for letting us know.
Caleb
On 07/30/2012 04:53 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
On 07/27/2012 10:59 PM, Vincent Massol wrote:
On Jul 28, 2012, at 4:53 AM, Mark Wallace wrote:
It is in a 4.2-SNAPSHOT that I have locally.
I agree that this is wrong and this jar should be removed.
I traced to see where it comes from, and it's a dependency used by Infinispan, which
means that Infinispan is in the wrong here. I created
https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-2179 and I hope that it will be addressed soon.
When you unzip, e.g.,
xwiki-enterprise-jetty-hsqldb-4.1.2.zip, it is in the webapps\xwiki\WEB-INF\lib folder
ok I'll try. I have 4.1.3 and it's not there for me. Thanks
-Vincent
> _______________________________________
> 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…