[License-discuss] Question about LGPL 2.1 and APL 2.0 Compatibility

Bruce Perens bruce at perens.com
Thu Apr 25 20:38:36 UTC 2019


As a matter of project policy, the Apache Project does not accept as an
official part of software they distribute any software under licenses that
place terms upon the larger work. In this case, the terms regarding
modification and reverse-engineering we just discussed. However, the Apache
license 2.0 terms do not prohibit linking with software under the very same
licenses.

On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 1:33 PM Bryan Christ <bryan.christ at gmail.com> wrote:

> This was the other thing that gave me pause.  It expressly says that the
> LGPL 2.1 is not compatible.
>
> http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html
>
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