3 Replies Latest reply on Jul 22, 2003 9:06 AM by juhalindfors

    LGPL Issues

    jurberg

      There is some controversy over the LGPL. According to <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.jakarta.poi.devel/5900>, linking LGPL code into code using "import" makes the code LGPL also.

      Questions:
      1) Are the jars containg the J2EE interfaces licenced under LGPL also?
      2) If not, If I only use the J2EE jars and only use JBoss to run my code, am I exempt from making my code LGPL?
      3) Will the license for JBoss change to avoid this issue? If so, is there a time line for this?

      We are planning on building a 3-tier commercial app that will use JBoss as the application server so we are very interested in this issue.

      Thanks,
      John

        • 1. Re: LGPL Issues

          > linking LGPL code into code using "import"
          > makes the code LGPL also.

          No it doesn't. This is incorrect and FSF has clarified the misunderstanding.

          -- Juha

          • 2. Re: LGPL Issues
            jurberg

            I'm still confused about licening of the J2EE libraries in JBoss. Are the libraries with the javax classes JBoss libraries that are LGPL licensed or are they considerd Sun libraries under their license?

            Thaks,
            John

            • 3. Re: LGPL Issues

              They are clean room implementations under LGPL license.

              -- Juha