Re: JASPA (JAva SPATial) for PostgreSQL and H2 released - Mailing list pgsql-general

John R Pierce wrote:
>   On 07/23/10 3:48 PM, Kerry Sainsbury wrote:
> > Is it really GPL? Any code I write that uses JASPA must also be
> > GPL'ed? Shouldn't it be LGPL?
>
> IANAL, but if this is PL/Java based, then your code shouldn't need to be
> GPL as you're not linking with it, you're just 'using' it.  Now, if you
> make any changes to the pl/java code, those changes would be GPL

Uh, I think the GPL does influence server-side code that relies on it,
e.g. derived work.  It would be good to get an interpretation from the
authors.

LGPL is what you are describing above (only affecting pl/java code).

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