[Biojava-l] Apache License vs. (L)GPL

Martin Szugat Martin.Szugat at GMX.net
Fri Sep 23 07:36:49 EDT 2005


Hi!

I'm using BioJava with my BioWeka project (www.bioweka.org). I'd like to
create a distribution with BioWeka (GPL), BioJava (LGPL) and the Apache
Commons libraries (Apache license) which are required by BioJava. However
there seems to be an incompatibility between the GPL/LGPL and the Apache
license:

http://apache.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/18/215242&tid=117&tid=185&ti
d=17&tid=2

But the Apache foundation says the licenses are compatible: 

http://www.apache.org/foundation/licence-FAQ.html#GPL

So I'm a little bit confused if I'm allowed to package all libraries in the
same distribution. Maybe someone can clarify that. I already contacted the
Apache foundation but didn't get an answer, yet.

Best regards

Martin




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