Is Eclipse RCPed application including hibernate library covered under LGPL?

David Woolley forums at david-woolley.me.uk
Sun Aug 16 09:12:17 UTC 2009


Keiko Murakami wrote:

> application(executable form) must be applied LGPL, because it includes full
> hibernate library as jar files and its hibernate library can not separate
> from RCPed application.

In what way is it not possible to trivially seperate the jar file from 
the other files?

As I understand it, the basic test is can an end user substitute a 
modified version of the the LGPLed library in the program, after you 
have supplied them with the materials that the LGPL requires you to 
supply on request.


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