Re: [Exist-development] LGPL 2.1 and GPL 2 and all that crap

[Joe W. <jo...@gm...>]

Adam - please disregard my email below.  I see you addressed this
question already in your heads up about the security updates merge in.

Joe

On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 6:42 PM, Joe Wicentowski <jo...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi Adam,
>
> Maybe you've already resolved the licensing question.  But I gather that the code in question was used to add a hash method more secure than MD5, RIPEMD-160.  Is there a reason you didn't just use any of the SHA variants that are already in eXist, rather than adding a new crypto library?
>
> Joe
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Feb 5, 2012, at 3:48 PM, Adam Retter <ad...@ex...> wrote:
>
>> I really detest trying to understand open source licences. I have
>> placed something which is GPLv2 into eXist-db. eXist-db is LGPL 2.1.
>> It seems to me that from what I can Google and understand (not much),
>> that the licences are compatible.
>>
>> However, I have had some concerns raised that we should not use
>> anything which is GPLv2. As Linux itself is GPLv2 and many companies
>> use this, I am not sure I understand the issue.
>>
>> If anyone is concerned that I should not include GPLv2 libraries,
>> please tell me, but more importantly please tell me why its important.
>>
>> Thanks Adam.
>>
>> --
>> Adam Retter
>>
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>> { United Kingdom }
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