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License ambiguity to hopefully clear up.
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created by <a href="https://community.jboss.org/people/part-time">Mike Kirkby</a> in <i>Javassist</i> - <a href="https://community.jboss.org/message/777677#777677">View the full discussion</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>Dear all, </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>first post, but I have a question about the license it may be used under.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>from Chiba Shigeru's home page:</p><p><a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://www.csg.ci.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~chiba/javassist/" target="_blank">http://www.csg.ci.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~chiba/javassist/</a></p><p>we have a triple license terms available, MPL, Apache v2 AND LGPL</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>but from the sourceforge page it is declared as LGPL only.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>And from this page whare all contributors sign up to help the project </p><p><a class="jive-link-external-small" href="https://cla.jboss.org/contributions/view_cla.seam;jsessionid=2C60FEE790C762F3A9823869D0EE1C2B?type=i&cid=844" target="_blank">https://cla.jboss.org/contributions/view_cla.seam;jsessionid=2C60FEE790C762F3A9823869D0EE1C2B?type=i&cid=844</a></p><p>if you select javassist then the person signing up is agreeing to LGPL only.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>This is giving me some problems with the lawyaer at my employer. </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>I appreciate that contributors from before it became a JBoss project had signed up for MPL, but any new contributor may or may not agree to the MPL terms offered at some future date.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>can any of the project leads give me any information that might make the lawyers relax about this ambiguity?</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Regards,</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Mike</p></div>
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