[ZF] [Commiter] using LGPLed packages?

[Rob Page]

On Dec 23, 2006, at 12:47 PM EST, Andreas Jung wrote:
 > for the Zope 2 core (ZPT unicode migration) I would
 > like to use
 >
 > <http://chardet.feedparser.org/>
 >
 > as an *optional* package in order to sniff the
 > encoding of existing page templates.
 >
 > I don't want to import the package to svn.zope.org. I
 > want to use the functionality of this module (if
 > installed e.g. as egg) instead of my own (much more)
 > limited implementation.
 >
 > Is this solution covered by the contributor agreement
 > and our committer rules? There was a similar
 > discussion some time ago about Zope 3 stuff checked
 > in by Lovely Systems but I can't remember that there
 > has been a consensus about to deal with this issue?
 >
 > Thoughts?

IIRC, the issue with the Lovely software was that it
was GPL and might therefore exert copyleft provisions.

LGPL software does not exert copyleft and is, imo,
(ianal) fine.

I believe the contributor agreement, as-is, is fine.
That said, I am working on an update to address some
employment situations that the current one ignores.

Hope that helps..  :^)

Regards,
Rob

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