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Posted to dev@mynewt.apache.org by Henri Yandell <ba...@apache.org> on 2016/04/14 00:44:09 UTC
Re: Release dependant on LGPL
Just wondering - did you enquire about the yaml code under a different
license and/or find a decent alternative?
Thanks,
Hen
On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 7:17 PM, Justin Mclean <ju...@me.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Apache Mynewt [1] is moving towards making it’s first release.
>
> We found that one of the libraries we depend on, viper which is MIT
> licensed [2], in turn depends on a library that is LGPLv3 licensed
> (go-yaml) [3].
>
> It is intended to replace the viper/yaml libraries with ones comparable
> with the Apache license and/or enquire if we can obtain the yaml code under
> a different license. So this will be fixed in a future incubating release.
>
> Would it be acceptable to make an incubating release with this LGPL
> dependancy intact? No LGPL code would be contained in the release.
>
> Thanks,
> Justin
>
> 1. http://mynewt.incubator.apache.org
> 2. https://github.com/spf13/viper/blob/master/LICENSE
> 3. https://github.com/go-yaml/yaml/blob/v2/LICENSE
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Re: Release dependant on LGPL
Posted by Christopher Collins <cc...@apache.org>.
Hi Henri,
We ended up writing a new YAML decoder and publishing it under the
Apache 2.0 license.
Chris
On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 03:44:09PM -0700, Henri Yandell wrote:
> Just wondering - did you enquire about the yaml code under a different
> license and/or find a decent alternative?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Hen
>
> On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 7:17 PM, Justin Mclean <ju...@me.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Apache Mynewt [1] is moving towards making it’s first release.
> >
> > We found that one of the libraries we depend on, viper which is MIT
> > licensed [2], in turn depends on a library that is LGPLv3 licensed
> > (go-yaml) [3].
> >
> > It is intended to replace the viper/yaml libraries with ones comparable
> > with the Apache license and/or enquire if we can obtain the yaml code under
> > a different license. So this will be fixed in a future incubating release.
> >
> > Would it be acceptable to make an incubating release with this LGPL
> > dependancy intact? No LGPL code would be contained in the release.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Justin
> >
> > 1. http://mynewt.incubator.apache.org
> > 2. https://github.com/spf13/viper/blob/master/LICENSE
> > 3. https://github.com/go-yaml/yaml/blob/v2/LICENSE
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> >