Blogging Roller

(via Lance) This quote from Free Software Foundation lawyer Eben Moglen seems to clarify the issue of using an LGPL jar in a non-GPL application (such as Roller). As long as the jar is LGPL, rather than GPL, you can include it in your application and then license your application however you choose. Here is the key quote:

Eben Moglen: If the author of the other code had chosen to release his JAR under the Lesser GPL, your contribution to the combined work could be released under any license of your choosing, but by releasing under GPL he or she chose to invoke the principle of "share and share alike."

Some conversations at the last RTP bloggers lunch left some doubt in my mind about LGPL, but the above quote clears it up nicely.