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Posted to legal-discuss@apache.org by "Craig Russell (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org> on 2009/09/04 00:30:57 UTC
[jira] Commented: (LEGAL-63) Are Apache projects allowed to include
Logback in their builds?
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-63?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12751199#action_12751199 ]
Craig Russell commented on LEGAL-63:
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I agree completely with item 2. An LGPL-licensed work cannot be distributed nor included in the svn repository of an Apache project.
But item 1 is less clear, even after reading the legal-discuss thread on the subject.
A developer who obtains the source distribution (*not* including the prohibited work) and builds it does not thereby taint the project even if the test suite runs with the prohibited work.
A user who obtains any distribution (*not* including the prohibited work) and uses it isn't automatically running the prohibited work either (it's strictly a build/test dependency, *not* a runtime dependency). It's the user's choice whether to include her own dependency on the prohibited work in the running project.
> Are Apache projects allowed to include Logback in their builds?
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>
> Key: LEGAL-63
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-63
> Project: Legal Discuss
> Issue Type: Question
> Reporter: Ceki Gulcu
>
> Background:
> SLF4J is licensed under the MIT license. Logback is licensed under the LGPL.
> SLF4J has an API which logback implements. SLF4J can be used with at least 5 other implementations, some of which are licensed under AL2.0 and some under MIT.
> Given that the end-user can pick and choose an implementation and assuming a given Apache Project (AP) only imports SLF4J classes in its source code (java classes):
> 1) can AP include references to logback in its build scripts?
> 2) can AP include logback in its standard distribution?
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