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?