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[Jersey] Re: Jersey licence - why GPL v2?

From: Borg, Andreas <borga_at_uni-mainz.de>
Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 16:43:28 +0000

Hi,

I am referring to the overview by the Free Software Foundation:

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html

Specifically http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#apache2: "Please note that this license is not compatible with GPL version 2".

Considering that there are a lot of useful and widely used libraries under the Apache License (HttpClient, Apache Commons, Log4j, ...), it is a significant drawback that Jersey cannot be used under the GPL 3. Another problem in our case is that we want to release software under the Affero GPL (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#AGPL), to which the current licenses for Jersey are incompatible as well. Thus, we currently cannot ship the Jersey libraries in our release bundle.

Given these points, the freedom to use Jersey under GPL 2 *or later* would be a real benefit to the open source community.

Best regards,

Andreas Borg
Abteilung Medizinische Informatik
 
Universitätsmedizin der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Institut für Med. Biometrie, Epidemiologie und Informatik (IMBEI)
Obere Zahlbacher Straße 69, 55131 Mainz
 
Tel:  +49 (0) 6131 17-5062
 
E-Mail: andreas.borg_at_unimedizin-mainz.de

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Matthew Hall [mailto:mhall_at_mhcomputing.net]
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 8. Mai 2013 20:08
> An: users_at_jersey.java.net
> Cc: Lablans, Martin
> Betreff: Re: [Jersey] Jersey licence - why GPL v2?
>
> On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 03:43:30PM +0000, Borg, Andreas wrote:
> > the Apache licence of the other libs is only compatible to GPL 3
>
> Maybe it's obvious already but I am a bit confused on this part here. Apache
> licenses are usually quite flexible. What prevents mixing the other libs'
> Apache license with GPL 2?
>
> Matthew.