On Friday, July 18, 2003, at 03:43 AM, Cees de Groot wrote:
On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 03:01, Andrew C. Greenberg wrote:
in view of the positions recently taken by FSF with respect to LGPL and Java-based libraries, which has taken the view that clients of "included" Java libraries are virally attached by LGPL. As understood from skimming blogs discussing the issues, Apache foundation has opted to eschew LGPL libraries, in part, because of this FSF gloss.
Of course, this is largely political rather than legal. First, the FSF is bound to give the widest possible interpretation of their own (politically inspired) license; second, the ASF is not bound to go into a public fight with an entity that lots view as a sort of sibling organization.
Then why should we?