e1ven
Oct 27th, 2005, 01:16 PM
Good Afternoon.
Forgive me if this is posted in the wrong forum, I was unable to find a forum dedicated to Over-arching Spring issues.
We're releasing a program tri-licensed under the MPL, the LGPL, and the GNU GPL, and we'd like to be able to use the Spring Framework within in it.
As I read the Apache 2.0 license, We're compatible with the MPL, but
Spring may be incompatible with the GPL, because of the patent provision in the Apache License. See http://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html for reference
Is there anything that the Spring developers can do to help us package this software together?
While I respect the purpose of the patent clause, it makes it incompatible with the existing base of GPL software thats out there.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thank you,
Colin Davis
Forgive me if this is posted in the wrong forum, I was unable to find a forum dedicated to Over-arching Spring issues.
We're releasing a program tri-licensed under the MPL, the LGPL, and the GNU GPL, and we'd like to be able to use the Spring Framework within in it.
As I read the Apache 2.0 license, We're compatible with the MPL, but
Spring may be incompatible with the GPL, because of the patent provision in the Apache License. See http://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html for reference
Is there anything that the Spring developers can do to help us package this software together?
While I respect the purpose of the patent clause, it makes it incompatible with the existing base of GPL software thats out there.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thank you,
Colin Davis