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[jira] [Comment Edited] (LEGAL-572) Is an ASF project allowed to
depend on Python chardet (LGPL 2.1)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-572?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=17341552#comment-17341552 ]
Ralph Goers edited comment on LEGAL-572 at 5/9/21, 5:12 PM:
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[~humbedooh] I am not sure what PSF is or how it is affiliated with the ASF. You will be able to find tons of stuff outside the ASF that will happily use software licensed with the LGPL. The policy on the LGPL is not based on whether the licenses can be legally combined, but on ASF policy. I view this as quite similar to when Legal had a discussion with Ceki Gulcu regarding Logback's use of the LGPL. ASF projects were not allowed to depend on it, even though they were coded to the SLF4J API. Ceki finally came to understand the ASF policy and changed the license.
See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-63. Nothing has changed since 2009.
Just because ASF projects are incorrectly using the library doesn't mean that it has been sanctioned. Those projects should be notified that they are not in compliance and change their code.
was (Author: ralph.goers@dslextreme.com):
[~humbedooh] I am not sure what PSF is or how it is affiliated with the ASF. You will be able to find tons of stuff outside the ASF that will happily use software licensed with the LGPL. The policy on the LGPL is not based on whether the licenses can be legally combined, but on ASF policy. I view this as quite similar to when Legal had a discussion with Ceki Gulcu regarding Logback's use of the LGPL. ASF projects were not allowed to depend on it, even though they were coded to the SLF4J API. Ceki finally came to understand the ASF policy and changed the license.
See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-63. Nothing has changed since 2009.
> Is an ASF project allowed to depend on Python chardet (LGPL 2.1)
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>
> Key: LEGAL-572
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-572
> Project: Legal Discuss
> Issue Type: Question
> Reporter: Sebb
> Priority: Major
>
> The Python module chardet is licensed under LGPL 2.1 [1].
> A project is licensed under AL 2.0 can have an optional dependency on it [2], but
> can it depend unconditionally on the module?
> I have been told that this is covered by the section [3], but this appears to contradict [2].
> [1] https://github.com/chardet/chardet
> [2] https://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#optional
> [3] https://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#prohibited
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