Re: Access library

[an...@superlinksoftware.com]

Please move all licensing discussions off this list.  There are more 
appropriate news groups and apache lists
for this.  consequently such discussions invite slashdotting which is a 
form of pure evil.

-Andy

Kais Dukes wrote:

>Hi There,
>
>If I may, I would like to understand the difference between LGPL and the
>Apache License. Is the Apache License too restrictive for commercial use?
>
>Regards,
>
>Kais Dukes
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tim McCune [mailto:tmccune@healthmarketscience.com]
>Sent: 25 March 2005 17:15
>To: POI Developers List
>Subject: Re: Access library
>
>
>On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 12:38 +0100, Rainer Klute wrote:
>  
>
>>Am Donnerstag, den 24.03.2005, 21:57 -0500 schrieb Tim McCune:
>>    
>>
>>>Our company recently implemented a clean-room, pure Java library for
>>>reading/writing MS Access databases (Access 2000 format) and I just got
>>>the go-ahead to open-source it.  This seems like it might be a nice
>>>complement to the POI project.  Is anyone here interested in the code?
>>>If not, I'm just planning to release it on Sourceforge.  Thanks.
>>>      
>>>
>>This seems to fit greatly into the POI collection of modules to access
>>horrible data formats - for example as HDBF resp. "Horrible Data Base
>>Format".
>>    
>>
>
>Since you guys seemed interested, I ran this by our management, and they
>strongly objected to the Apache license.  Our software must be released
>under LGPL, so it looks like this code won't be able to be integrated
>with POI.  Sorry, and thanks anyway.
>
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