[Rxtx] Proposal 3.0; Apache and LGPL license for the RXSL

[Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia]

At 11:43 04/08/2006, Julien Vermillard wrote:
>Le jeudi 03 août 2006 à 05:17 -0600, Trent Jarvi a écrit :
> > On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Julien Vermillard wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm a developer of the Apache MINA framework. It's a network application
> > > framework which helps users develop high performance and high
> > > scalability network applications easily.
> > > http://directory.apache.org/subprojects/mina/index.html . I would like
> > > to integrate serial connection to the framework (actualy supporting TCP,
> > > UDP (broadcast) and in VM communications), but LGPL is an issue for me.
> > >
> > > An Apache License would be pretty usefull for me and integrate rxtx
> > > functionnalities easly.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Julien
> > >
> >
> > Hi Julien
> >
> > The rxtx license itself will not change.  This is just the interface.
> > You would be free to implement an rxtx replacement if the LGPL low level
> > code is a problem for you.  These licensing details would make it possible
> > to take the interface code instead of needing to recode them for a new
> > project.
> >
> > You are probably confusing the license problems with the GPL not the LGPL
> > though you can share links to concerns off the list if you would like to
> > go through them.
> >
> > --
> > Trent Jarvi
> > tjarvi at qbang.org
>
>Hi,
>
>I'm not a license expert but some guys at ASF said me you can't call
>LGPLed libs from java. some peoples interprete that as static linking
>and not dynamic linking (no idea why).

This interpretation is wrong. See the official position of the FSF regarding
the LGPL and Java:

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-java.html

http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/lgpl-java.html

Guillermo
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