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Dave Johnson on social software, open source and Java

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Wednesday Jul 16, 2003

Happy birthday Matt!

Matt's taking the day off to celebrate his birthday. Have a good one Matt.

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Linus chasing the ultra-light.

Linus runs down the boardwalk towards the beach and a landing ultra-light aircraft

(C) 2003 Charles S. Johnson

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For Java, LGPL is viral.

Andy Oliver: I clarified the LGPL in Java issue with the FSF and posted to poi-dev. According to the FSF, the LGPL is indeed viral towards Java code. Thus, in essence GPL and LGPL are the same for Java. You could still find that the copyright holder of a particular software package held a different view and is willing to state that explicitly, but it looks like the Apache Software Foundation and Sam were right and I was wrong.
That really sucks. Not the part about Andy being wrong, that happens all the time. I'm talking about the now confirmed viral nature of the LGPL when applied to Java. I believe that Roller uses a couple of LGPL components, JSPWiki for example. I guess this means that either those components should be removed or Roller should switch to a dual GPL and APL license.
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