[ZF] [Commiter] using LGPLed packages?

[Rob Page]

On Dec 23, 2006, at 10:24 PM EST, Stephan Richter wrote:

> On Saturday 23 December 2006 13:04, Rob Page wrote:
>> IIRC, the issue with the Lovely software was that it
>> was GPL and might therefore exert copyleft provisions.
>
> Note that we never imported the GPL software; it merely has a  
> dependency on
> GPL code. That's a big difference. I am still evaluating the option  
> to get a
> ZPL version of this dependency, probably by reimplementing it.

Absolutely - I should have been more precise - the software had a GPL  
dependency.

At best, it's unclear whether that sort of dependency activates the  
copyleft provisions
of the GPL.  We should err on the side of being conservative in this  
regard.

Regards,
Rob

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