Re: Change License - Mailing list psycopg

Am 11.12.2013 10:10, schrieb Abraham Elmahrek:
> I think the correct page to reference would have been
> http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html. Sorry about that...
>
> My understanding is that the third-party licensing policy page is simply
> guidelines for how to interpret ASLv2. The resolved page insists that
> LGPL shouldn't be included in apache projects. I do think that extends
> to any project with ASLv2 license since it seems like an interpretation
> of the license itself.

If that were true, other (large/significant) projects would have a
problem: E.g. JBoss is licensed under LGPL 2.1 and uses various Apache
2.0 code inside (various things from Apache Commons and other for
logging etc).

https://community.jboss.org/thread/147636


http://www.tldrlegal.com/compare?a=Apache+License+2.0+%28Apache-2.0%29&b=GNU+Lesser+General+Public+License+v2.1+%28LGPL-2.1%29

/Tobias


>
> LGPL is a great license. I can understand why LGPL was chosen for
> postgresql and its various subprojects. It makes perfect sense to
> control the rights of a project and guide users to contribute back to
> the original code base. psycopg2 is, how ever, a client. It seems less
> likely that a client would be forked than the postgresql code base
> itself. Also, making a client packageable in every other project seems
> like a great goal, irrespective of licensing.
>
> Also, thanks for all the responses. It's great to see so much
> involvement from the community. I definitely appreciate it!
> -Abe
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 12:57 AM, Federico Di Gregorio <fog@dndg.it
> <mailto:fog@dndg.it>> wrote:
>
>     On 11/12/2013 03:47, Daniele Varrazzo wrote:
>      > On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:10 PM, Abraham Elmahrek
>     <abe@cloudera.com <mailto:abe@cloudera.com>> wrote:
>      >> > Hey Guys,
>      >> >
>      >> > Thanks for the speedy responses. I work on the Hue project at
>     Cloudera. Hue
>      >> > is an ASLv2 licensed project and according too
>      >> > http://www.apache.org/legal/3party.htm LGPL is excluded from
>     the list of
>      >> > shippable licenses. The end goal is to be able to ship
>     psycopg2 since it's a
>      >> > complete client for postgresql that django fully supports.
>      > Note: the correct url above is
>     <http://www.apache.org/legal/3party.html>.
>      >
>      > I didn't know the Apache Software Foundation was in open war with the
>      > GPL. Well, too bad: it seems you chose the wrong license for your
>      > software.
>      >
>      > We could be able to provide a personal, non-transferable license for
>      > projects whose lawyers insist to require it; however your license
>      > seems to forbid this option too.
>      >
>      > I'm afraid the chance to see psycopg released with a non-LGPL license
>      > are quite low.
>
>     I'd say they are 0. :)
>
>     federico
>
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