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LGPL and Java, and Python?

Hello,

Reading Debian Weekly News, I learnt that there seem to be a problem
when importing an LGPL'd java library (this forces the importer to be
LGPL'd too), making the LGPL license equivalent to the GPL for Java
programs.

Here are a few references taken from DWN:

http://slashdot.org/developers/03/07/17/2257224.shtml
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp....poi.devel/5900
http://linuxintegrators.com/hl30/blo...ification.html
http://www.rollerweblogger.org/page/..._lgpl_is_viral
http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/1519.html
http://radio.weblogs.com/0122027/2003/07/16.html#a56
I'm by no way a license expert, but it seems to me that the import
mechanism in python is closer to Java's than what is allowed to use a
python LGPL'd library in a non GPL/LGPL program.

Could anyone confirm or infirm this impression?

--
Alexandre Fayolle
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Jul 18 '05 #1
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Alexandre Fayolle <al*@fayauffre.org> writes:
Could anyone confirm or infirm this impression?


To answer that question, one would need to know on what grounds the
FSF lawyer has decided that section 6b) of the LGPL is inapplicable to
Java.

Regards,
Martin

Jul 18 '05 #2
In article <sl****************@largo.fayauffre.org>,
Alexandre Fayolle <al*@fayauffre.org> writes:
Hello,

Reading Debian Weekly News, I learnt that there seem to be a problem
when importing an LGPL'd java library (this forces the importer to be
LGPL'd too), making the LGPL license equivalent to the GPL for Java
programs.


Apparently, this whole mess was a misunderstanding. The LGPL works as expected
with Java.

http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal.../msg00234.html

--
Robert Kern
ke**@caltech.edu

"In the fields of hell where the grass grows high
Are the graves of dreams allowed to die."
-- Richard Harter
Jul 18 '05 #3

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